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Pew Research Center Report Highlights Concerns Over Declining Religious Influence in America

Political preferences also reveal stark differences: 51% of Republicans prefer a president who shares their religious beliefs, a figure that rises to 70% among white evangelical Protestants. In contrast, only 25% of Democrats prioritize a president’s religious beliefs, and just 11% of religiously unaffiliated Americans consider it important.

What Do The New Norms Given by The Vatican Change About the Approval of Marian Apparitions?

Sister Daniela said that “the new norms are useful for Bishops, in the first place, because the more detailed norms make it possible to guide better the path of discernment that the Prelates are called to follow, in communion with the Dicastery. To add to the ‘nihil obstat’ the declaration ‘of supernaturalness,’ “underscores that these phenomena do not become objects of faith, that is, they are not binding for believers. This error has been registered especially in some parts of the world,” she said.