This Pew Research Center report examines religious switching in the United States, including the reasons people give for staying in or leaving their childhood religion. It also looks at social and ...

In Washington last week, Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington solemnly carried out one of the rarer ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church: the formal blessing of a new abbot. He gave his ...

The old legend that there are 30,000 promises in the Bible is a bit off, according to Schoolteacher Everek R. Storms of Kitchener, Ont. A member of Canada’s United Missionary Church, Storms slowed ...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Orange County continues its trend with historic early voting numbers, with some 130,169 people casting ballots as of Monday morning. Another 93,419 voters have done the same by ...

The Yule log conceals a forgotten tradition, once widely practiced over centuries, which involved burning a log during midnight mass. It is through an investigation into this custom, the meaning of ...