by Adelle Banks | Sep 29, 2011 | News
(RNS) American congregations have grown less healthy in the last decade, with fewer people in the pews and aging memberships, according to a new Hartford Seminary study. But there are also “pockets of vitality,” including an increase in minority congregations and a...
by Nicole Neroulias | Apr 22, 2011 | News
(RNS) The recession was a double-barrel blow to American congregations: directly hurting their budgets while also stretching them thin due to increased needs for counseling, emergency housing and other social services. But the worst seems to be over, according to a...
by Michael O'Malley and The Plain Dealer | Aug 18, 2010 | News
CLEVELAND (RNS) Bishop Richard Lennon wants to meet with the priest and lay leaders of a breakaway congregation to try to bring them back into the fold, a spokesman for the diocese said Monday (Aug. 16). The Diocese of Cleveland was reacting to an unauthorized Mass...
