The Catholic Church has been making saints for centuries, typically in a two-stage process featuring beatification and … naming of blessed persons seems to reflect a response by the Catholic Church to competition from Protestantism or …

We combine a new dataset of weekly Catholic church donations with a new dataset of presidential-election campaign stops … appear to vary based on the political language used by the parish in its own church bulletins. However, the effect does …

The availability of public funding for charitable church activity has increased dramatically in the past decade. A key … race affects charitable church activity. In all three datasets there is evidence that all-white congregations become less … charitable activities, not when looking at other types of church activity. Additionally, all-white congregations favorably …

then use a variety of datasets to show that when a state repeals its blue laws religious attendance falls, and that church … this paper we identify a policy-driven change in the opportunity cost of religious participation based on state laws that …, nor do we see comparable declines in membership or giving to nonreligious organizations after a state repeals its laws. We …

complementary institutions, notably the church, could have mutually reinforced each other over many overlapping generations, long …

populations and the church promoted the doctrine of purgatory, guilds that bundled together religious and occupational activities …

citizens. The sale of private chapels within churches to individuals was a significant source of church funds, and facilitated … a church construction boom. Chapel sales offered three benefits to churches: prices were usually far above cost; donor …/purchasers purchased masses and other tie-in services; and they added to the magnificence of the church because donors were required to …