01: Morale among American Catholic priests remains fairly high, although their trust in church leadership has been shaken in the aftermath of the sex abuse crisis, according to a recent survey. The survey was conducted by Stephen J. Rossetti of the St. Luke Institute in Silver Spring, which is a facility treating sex abusers. Rosetti surveyed […]

01: The divisions over such issues as stem cell research, same-sex marriage and abortion are more pronounced and influenced by religious ideology among members of Congress than among their constituents, according to a study of congressional voting patterns over the last quarter-century. The study, conducted by sociologists William D’Antonio and Steven Tuch, finds that religious affiliation helped […]

01: A new survey finds that Protestants will soon lose their majority status in the U.S. Due to a steady decline of Americans affiliated with many Protestant churches between 1993 and 2002, the survey, conducted by the National Opinion Research Center, finds that the share of Americans who said they were Protestant dropping from 63 percent to […]

01: For The Health of the Nation: An Evangelical Call for Civic Responsibility, a statement by the National Association of Evangelicals, has sparked controversy over the question of how involved evangelicals should be in activism. In an early draft given to the press, the statement was reported to call for evangelicals not to ally themselves […]

01: A significant majority of Protestant pastors believe the separation of church and state has gone too far or in directions in which it was never intended to go, according to a new poll. The survey, by Ellison Research, found that 78 percent of the clergy agree that separation of church and state has “gone too far […]

01: Although evangelicals have been viewed as uniformly holding an anti-Islamic and pro-Israel agenda, there are significant differences on these issues in American evangelicalism, according to a new study. In the Brandywine Review of Faith & International Affairs (Spring), Dennis R. Hoover writes that American evangelicals have increasingly been labeled in the media as supporting a “civilization fight” (to […]

01: In a nationwide survey on the spiritual life of students in various fields, it is those in the fine arts who have the greatest spiritual interest while sociology majors have the least. The survey of 3,680 students, conducted by researchers at UCLA, found that 62 percent of fine arts majors rated high on “spiritual […]

01: Although known as the most secular region on the U.S., the rate of religious devotion has increased markedly in the West, according to a recent Barna Poll. In Barna’s annual survey tracking religious behavior, it was found that little had changed during the past decade in such areas as church attendance, volunteering and Sunday […]

01: The kind and degree of religious and spiritual experiences people seek out may be related to the level of the chemical serotonin in their brains, according to a new Swedish study. The study, conducted by Lars Farde of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and published in the November issue of the American Journal of Psychology, […]

01: A new study of Internet users finds that one-third of all Americans connected to computers have used them to access religious and spiritual information. The study, conducted by the Pew Research Center, found that 40 percent of Americans use the Internet to search for political information and 66 percent for medical information. But the […]