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In 1965, most U.S. Catholics who knew the Catholic Church's views on the issue said they believed the church would eventually approve of some kind of birth control. A substantial majority of this group said the change would happen relatively ...

After stabilizing in the mid-2000s, weekly church attendance among U.S. Catholics has resumed its long-term decline. Protestant attendance remains steady.

Several factors help explain why Americans are four times as likely to see polygamy as morally acceptable now compared with 14 years ago.

Amid renewed allegations of priest sex abuse, Americans' favorability toward Pope Francis has declined sharply. U.S. Catholics' opinions are unchanged.

The pope is viewed in a largely favorable light by Americans -- though less so among conservatives.

Americans' confidence in organized religion has dropped dramatically over the past four decades, hitting an all-time low this year of 42%. While Protestants' confidence in the church is also at a new low, Catholics' has stabilized.

For the second year in a row, fewer than four in 10 Americans express confidence in organized religion, the historical low points in Gallup's 46-year trend.

Seventy-two percent of Americans say religion is important to them, but few think its influence on U.S. life is increasing, and a record-low 46% say it can solve most problems.

Americans widely regard in-vitro fertilization as morally acceptable, but they divide over whether destroying frozen embryos created by IVF is morally acceptable (49%) or wrong (43%).

Worshippers rate sermons teaching about faith or why it matters in their lives as the top reasons they attend, while those who do not attend say preferring solitary worship is the main reason.