Haunted Without God: Why Secular Americans Still Believe Something Lingers

Jan 09, 2026 00:09

Paul Froese, a sociology professor at Baylor University and director of the Baylor Religion Surveys Photo: RNS photo/Adelle M. Banks

Analysis Opinion

Two out of three Protestant pastors use AI to prepare sermons: these and other revelations from a new study

According to the 2025 State of AI in the Church Survey, produced by AiForChurchLeaders.com in collaboration with Exponential AI NEXT, nearly two-thirds of pastors report using artificial intelligence on a weekly or even daily basis

Dec 19, 2025 11:29

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Analysis Opinion•Pro Life•Woman

This is what happens to a woman who has an abortion: results of peer-reviewed scientific study on post-abortion syndrome published

The Grief That Did Not Fade: New Research Reopens the Debate on Abortion and Long-Term Mental Health

Dec 18, 2025 11:27

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Analysis Opinion•Local Church•Persecuted Christians

Syria: in 14 years, the Christian presence has fallen by 84%: these are the numbers

Overall, an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 Christians are still in Syria. Of those who remain, more than half are over the age of 50. The community’s age structure is inverted, with far fewer young people able or willing to stay

Dec 13, 2025 19:15

ZENIT Staff

Analysis Opinion•Local Church

The return of confession: a sacrament regaining its place. What a French study says

The confessional, long considered a casualty of modernity, may thus be reemerging as a defining space for a Church that has learned to live as a minority—smaller, more urban, and more intentional than before

Dec 12, 2025 19:33

Covadonga Asturias

Analysis Opinion•Local Church

American Catholics are in favor of the death penalty. This is according to a recently published survey

A recent nationwide survey conducted by EWTN News in partnership with RealClear Opinion Research illustrates this tension with unusual clarity

Dec 12, 2025 19:29

Tim Daniels

Sovereign Order of the Temple of Christ Association

Pope Leo XIV Sued in Spanish Courts: The Case of the “Templars” Seeking Ecclesiastical Rehabilitation… and Money

At the center of the case is the suppression of the Order of the Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon. The modern organization presents itself as its heir and argues that Pope Clement V’s decision in 1312 was illegitimate, maintaining that the suppression took place under political pressure from King Philip IV of France.

Leo XIV Speaks Out in Support of Palestinians Attacked by Jewish Settlers in Tierra Sana: Here’s What’s Happening

The episode has become more than another isolated clash in the West Bank. It has exposed, in a matter of days, the convergence of three increasingly serious problems: settler violence, the difficulty of protecting Palestinian civilians under occupation, and the weakening of the institutions that provide basic services to them.

Haunted Without God: Why Secular Americans Still Believe Something Lingers

U.S. Congressional Report Maps a Broadening Repression in China

The Ten Countries That Contributed the Most Pilgrims to the Jubilee and Other Surprising Interesting Data

Beyond “No Religion”: Why Britain’s Young Adults Are Rethinking God, Gratitude, and Meaning

American missiles, persecuted Christians, and a country that cannot protect them: why did Trump bomb part of Nigeria?

Nigeria: A decade of terror for Catholic priests

Polonia: Sunday Mass Attendance Rises as Sacramental Life Continues to Thin

Two out of three Protestant pastors use AI to prepare sermons: these and other revelations from a new study

This is what happens to a woman who has an abortion: results of peer-reviewed scientific study on post-abortion syndrome published

Syria: in 14 years, the Christian presence has fallen by 84%: these are the numbers

The return of confession: a sacrament regaining its place. What a French study says

American Catholics are in favor of the death penalty. This is according to a recently published survey