It was a minor landmark in church history. Last week the Roman Catholic Church issued a new and explicit clarification of the conditions under which Catholics may be permitted to discuss religion and ...

New census data confirms that the once-dominant Protestants no longer predominate — a demographic change that could open the door to reunification with the rest of Ireland. A man walks past a Catholic ...

A peace wall separating Catholic and Protestant communities is seen in Belfast, Northern Ireland, March 1, 2017. Data from the 2021 census showed 45.7% of respondents identified as Catholic or were ...

What are the sources of Protestant-Roman Catholic tension in the U.S.? Last week the Jesuit weekly America listed three areas of friction in a lead article (written for CBS’s Church of the Air radio ...

I teach philosophy at a Jesuit liberal arts college. I am an ecumenical chaplain at that same Jesuit school, where I have also been a mentor in the Manresa program, an undergraduate community inspired ...

Some years ago Reinhold Niebuhr declared that “the acrimonious relations between Catholics and Protestants in this country are scandalous. If two forms of the Christian faith, though they recognize a ...

It’s not unusual for me to be asked, by Catholics, “Why do you spend so much time trying to evangelize Protestants?” I have been told, a number of times, that since Protestants already believe in ...

One of the most conspicuous facts of modern history is the sharp rise of Roman Catholicism. “The last of the popes is dead”—this news spread through Europe when in 1799 Pius VI died at Valence as the ...

Dwindling church attendance and dire financial straits are forcing the Catholic and Protestant Churches in Germany to sell ...

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Northern Ireland's 2021 census has shown that for the first time in 101 years of history of the region, 45.7% of the population are Catholic while 43.5% are Protestant. Northern Ireland now has more ...