Analysis

The professors and media personalities in this network don’t all agree on everything — even on what to call themselves —  but most go by “postliberal.” They share some longstanding Catholic conservative views, such as opposition to abortion and LGBTQ+ rights. But where Catholic conservatives of the past have seen big government as a problem rather than a solution, the postliberals want a muscular government — one that they control.

In the U.S., two-thirds of respondents say that it is important to have a leader at the national level who stands up for people with religious beliefs. Less than half of respondents believe that it is essential for their leader to have strong religious beliefs or have religious beliefs that are the same as their own.

Analysis: There was religious rhetoric at the Democratic convention, but the language of values took center stage. Once the vocabulary of conservative culture warriors, moral language is now the lingua franca of liberals and progressives.

Almost half of US Orthodox churches remained open during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to only 12% of all religious congregations.

Analysis: A bankruptcy judge ruled against a clergy sex abuse claimant this summer in her legal dispute with the Santa Fe Archdiocese. The decision may now serve as a cautionary warning to attorneys in other church bankruptcies.

US migrants are much more likely to have a religious identity than the American-born population.

The rise in popularity of music from churches like Elevation, Hillsong and Bethel has helped launch a new kind of ecumenical movement.

Analysis: Amid the genocide case against Gen. Benedicto Lucas García, experts debate whether acts committed during the counterinsurgency led by Lucas between 1978 and 1982 should be called genocide, or termed "war crimes."