According to Professor Margaret Nutting Ralph, some do not find the worship nourishing. Some disagree with the church's teachings. Others feel they have been marginalized. Others have been hurt by the ...

Tommy was 30 weeks in utero when he died in the womb of Rob Dauses’ wife, Shannon. The loss hit hard and lasted. For several years, Rob used what he calls “numbing agents” — including alcohol and his ...

Tens of thousands of German Catholics cancelled their church membership in 2010 - considerably more than in 2009 - taking their automatic tax donations with them. The recent abuse scandals motivated ...

The church is preparing for the Gillard government to radically overhaul funding, amid concerns of a collapse in real-terms of payments to the sector. The Australian has obtained a confidential ...

The central committee of People’s Democracy state that a survey in Newtownabbey showed that, due to massive intimidation, 3,700 of 9,000 Catholics in the three parishes of Whitehouse, Greencastle and ...

A national survey in 2008 by the Pew Forum got America’s Catholic clergy and lay leaders talking. It found that a third of Americans who were raised Catholic had left the church. One in 10 Americans ...

Deliberately or not, the militant Buddhists and the Communists complement each other in South Viet Nam. Caught by both forces are the country’s 1.6 million Roman Catholics, who until the overthrow of ...