Reporting on the faith can challenge your own

Even though survey after survey finds the U.S. one of the most religious of the world’s developed nations, and most Americans say that religion is significantly important in their lives, fewer and fewer news enterprises these days assign religion as a regular beat. When they do, it can cause a believing reporter to begin, as [...]

The Vatican’s big red book

VATICAN CITY — The Annuario Pontificio is the Vatican’s bureaucratic bible. It lists every diocese and bishop in the world, all Roman Curia offices and their personnel, the diplomatic corps at the Holy See, the world’s religious orders, pontifical academies and universities, a statistical summary and much, much more.
This year’s Annuario weighed in at 3 pounds and 2,511 [...]