America’s Confidence Crisis Reaches the Pews: Why Trust in Churches Continues to Erode

Aug 13, 2026 11:41

Gallup’s 2026 annual survey reveal that only 33% of Americans express either “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in organized religion or the Church Photo: Gallup

Pope Leo XIV personally ordered his Dicastery for Communication to stop using works by the former Jesuit Rupnik, according to the bishop of Lourdes

The Vatican quietly removed the images in June, a decision that initially came without an official explanation. Micas’s account now provides an explanation for that change and portrays Leo as having taken a deliberate position on an issue that had become increasingly difficult for the Church to treat simply as a question of artistic preference

Leo XIV Reforms the Code of Canon Law: Synods May Remove the Patriarch or Major Archbishop in Eastern Catholic Churches

The reform, contained in the apostolic letter issued on August 29 under the title Mutua Concordia, changes canons 106 and 126 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches. It took effect immediately

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America’s Confidence Crisis Reaches the Pews: Why Trust in Churches Continues to Erode

A letter from Pope Leo XIV has come to light in which he expressed his desire to remain in Peru for the rest of his life

Israel Declares the Only Entirely Christian City in the Holy Land a “Closed Military Zone”