A new study offers a more nuanced take on the nation's religiously unaffiliated, and the findings show that Catholic parishes need to become more "outward facing" to reach those beyond the pews, an evangelization expert said.
"Religious 'Nones' in America: Who They Are
In a special report on how Catholic colleges are evangelizing to the rising number of "nones" -- those who are unaffiliated with a particular religion -- writer Nicole Snook talks to several campus ministers who say that while many students do not
In a presentation on the first day of the U.S. bishops’ fall assembly in Baltimore, Bishop Robert Barron, auxiliary of Los Angeles and chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis, suggested five paths that he believes
Despite the disheartening numbers that show more and more young people are leaving the Catholic Church and rejecting faith altogether, there are a number of organizations that have dedicated their time and resources to reaching this demographic.
The Pew Research Center recently released a new study that looks at the changing religious landscape in the United States over the last decade. Gradually but noticeably, people have vacated their place in the pews, and the rise in the religiously unaffiliated
Dear U.S. bishops, as laypeople, we are committed to living out our baptismal call to work in cooperation with you to bring Christ to all people. Yet the evidence shows that we, as a Church, are failing to answer that call. In
New numbers from the Pew Research Center continue to outline a bleak future for believers. The rise in the religiously unaffiliated — the “nones” — continues and now has climbed to 26 percent. To put it into absolute numerical terms, the number
"None of the above" is the fastest-growing religious identifier in the United States and now approximates the percentage of Catholics in the country. While most of the religiously unaffiliated people, the so-called "nones" are young, speakers at an Oct 15 symposium at
I recently finished reading Walker Percy’s second novel, “The Last Gentleman.” I don’t remember having read it before, though the copy that I’ve owned since college some 30 years ago has marks in the margin that I recognize as mine.
Although the U.S. bishops' spring assembly in Baltimore was mostly devoted to responding to the sexual abuse crisis in the church, the bishops also considered something described as the second-most important issue currently facing U.S. church leaders: How to get religiously unaffiliated,