Serving on the altar has formed my experience as a woman in the church.

I asked my fellow Gen-Xers on staff to reflect on this trend, and what may be contributing to it.

Introducing America’s new, groundbreaking feature documentary, “People of God: How Catholic Parish Life is Changing in the United States.”

The share of Catholics going to Mass even a few times each year has fallen off significantly compared with the number before the Covid pandemic, but U.S. Catholics overall are largely optimistic about their church and its leaders, a new survey finds.

I hope their belief will deepen. And I hope that my fellow Catholics in the pews will demonstrate that the wider church wants them there too.

Our task as sacristans is to attend to small acts of care in a world that is too often inattentive and careless.