Catholicism

While Slovakia is majority Catholic, around seven-in-ten Czechs are religiously unaffiliated – the highest share of unaffiliated adults in 34 European countries surveyed.

The Catholic Church remains closely tied to Europe. Catholics are the largest religious group in many of the continent’s most populous countries.

Just three-in-ten American Catholics now say the pontiff is doing a good or excellent job of addressing the sex abuse scandal.

Just three-in-ten Catholic adults say Francis is doing an excellent or good job addressing the sex abuse scandal, down 14 points from this January and 24 points since 2015.

Pope Francis begins a four-day trip this weekend to the Baltic states, the first papal visit to these countries in 25 years. While the Baltic countries have a substantial Christian population, only Lithuania and Latvia have large numbers of Catholics.

Nine-in-ten Americans believe in a higher power, but only a slim majority believe in God as described in the Bible.

About one-in-ten U.S. Catholics say Pope Francis’ most notable action has been showing humility and setting a good Christian example, while an equal share credited Francis with opening up the church and making it more accepting.

As Pope Francis approaches the fifth anniversary of his papacy, read six facts about how American Catholics view the pope.

Después de cinco años de pontificado del papa Francisco, la amplia mayoría de católicos estadounidenses siguen teniendo una opinión favorable del pontífice argentino, y la mayoría dice que representa un cambio importante y positivo para la Iglesia Católica Romana. Sin embargo, una nueva encuesta de Pew Research Center ha detectado signos de un creciente descontento […]

American Catholics continue to have a favorable opinion of Francis. Yet there are signs of growing disenchantment with the Argentine pontiff, particularly among Catholic Republicans.