From glow-in-the-dark rosary beads to St. Christopher dashboard statues and Pope Francis bobbleheads, a tribute to the complicated life of Catholic kitsch
Cardinal Michael Czerny, Pope Francis’ point-man on migration and development, has urged the U.S. administration of President Donald Trump to remember Christian principles about caring for others.
This week, Zac and Ashley chat with Dr. Gina Zurlo, a scholar of world Christianity at Harvard Divinity School, about her groundbreaking research on women outpacing men in worldwide church participation.
Sunday Mass attendance in person at Catholic churches in the U.S. is back to pre-pandemic levels, although just under one quarter of the nation’s Catholics are in the pews on a regular weekly basis.