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“Still Positive on Synodality: A Sign of Hope, Even If Most U.S. Catholics Haven’t Heard of It”
Commonweal — September 11, 2025 (featuring Crossroads co-author, Michele Dillon)
[London] Times Radio — September 6, 2025 [St. Carlo Acutis segment begins at 1:18:41]
“U.S. Expert on Cultural Catholics Maureen K. Day: Parishes Can Bring Believers Back to Church — Christmas Liturgy Should Be Planned as Early as August” (available in Croatian here)
Glas Koncila — June 9, 2025
“As First US-Born Pontiff, Pope Leo May Be ‘More Attuned’ to Polarization Issue, Analysts Say”
OSV News — June 2, 2025
“Can Leo, a Pan-American Pope, Boost the Catholic Church’s Popularity?”
The Washington Post — May 17, 2025
“Even with Pope Leo XIV in Place, US Catholics Stand ‘at a Crossroads’ − A Sociologist Explains”
The Conversation — May 7, 2025
“The Politics of the Catholic Church After Pope Francis”
Equal Time with Mary C. Curtis — May 2, 2025
“Funeral Preparations for Pope Francis”
Fox 5 San Diego — April 25, 2025
Fox 13 Unscripted — April 25, 2025 (featuring Crossroads co-author, Jim Cavendish)
“GLAAD leaders call Pope Francis “a transformational leader who included LGBTQ people””
ABC Action News, WFTS — April 22, 2025 (featuring Crossroads co-author, Jim Cavendish)
“‘The Francis Effect’: USF professor describes pope’s ‘revolutionary’ impact”
MSN News, WFLA Tampa — April 21, 2025 (featuring Crossroads co-author, Jim Cavendish)
The Francis Effect: Illegal Deportations, Survey of Women in Ministry, Meghan Clark Interview
National Catholic Reporter — March 27, 2025 (survey begins 35:20)
San Diego Women in Church Leadership Feel Supported, But Some Report Sexism
National Catholic Reporter — March 20, 2025
Data and Discernment: How the Church Can Make Better Use of Empirical Evidence
America — March 13, 2025
US Catholics’ Political Attitudes: It’s Complicated (But Hopeful)
National Catholic Reporter — February 22, 2025
Cultural Catholics: The Loosely-Tethered Half of the American Church
National Catholic Reporter — November 18, 2024
Empathy and Compassion in Star Wars
Star Warsologies — March 25, 2024
Catholic dioceses are declaring bankruptcy. Abuse survivors say it’s a ‘way to silence’ them
The Guardian — November 12, 2023
Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society Presents Theologian Father Bryan N. Massingale, Nov. 15
UC San Diego Today — November 7, 2023
Nuances in Support of Catholic Causes
The CARA Report — Winter 2023
Cardinal-designate McElroy has long commitment to Laudato Si’, environment
National Catholic Reporter — August 25, 2022
Pope Names Women to Key Vatican Office
The Southern Cross — July 24, 2022
We Asked Hundreds of Americans About Abortion. Their Feelings Were Complicated
Time — May 9, 2022 (as “my team”)
American Catholic Studies Newsletter, Volume 48, no. 2, p. 23
American Catholic Studies Newsletter (University of Notre Dame’s Cushwa Center) — Fall 2021
Modern Catholics with Maureen Day
On a Mission — September 27, 2021
Cardinal Cupich: To save planet, US must reject ‘false idol’ of money
National Catholic Reporter — July 14, 2021
American Catholic Studies Newsletter, Volume 48, no. 1, p. 55
American Catholic Studies Newsletter (University of Notre Dame’s Cushwa Center) — Spring 2021
Appointment of woman a ‘great hope’
The Southern Cross — February 23, 2021
Event series’ proposals aim to raise women’s voices in San Diego Diocese
National Catholic Reporter — January 6, 2021
Diocese of San Diego, Office of Family Spirituality — October 9, 2020
What Americans Really Think About Abortion
Wall Street Journal — September 25, 2020 (as “team of five sociologists”)
What Pro-Lifers Can Learn From the Notre Dame Abortion Survey
National Catholic Register — August 9, 2020 (as “a team of five sociologists”)
Abortion study finds American opinion much more complicated than polls suggest
Aleteia.org — July 21, 2020 (as “sociologists at the University of Notre Dame”)
Survey Shows that Only 33% of Americans Believe that Abortion is Morally Wrong
The Daily Citizen — July 17, 2020 (as “the researchers”)
National abortion study finds out-of-touch labels, knowledge gaps, appetite for moral discussion
Phys.org — July 16, 2020 (as “team of sociologists”)
Notre Dame study examines ‘everyday’ Americans’ attitudes toward abortion
Catholic News Service — July 15, 2020 (as “a research team”)
Five years after Laudato Si: How are we doing?
The Southern Cross — June 1, 2020
Here’s what to expect for Laudato Si’ Week as pope’s ecology document turns five
National Catholic Reporter — May 15, 2020
How to Increase U.S. Parish Support among Latino Catholics
The CARA Report — Winter 2020
Season 4, Episode 1: Dr. Maureen Day
Campus Min Podcast — 2/12/20
Survey finds tension between professional and ‘missionary’ campus ministers:
Follow-up projects to address ‘shared ministry’ and college-to-parish transition
National Catholic Reporter — 1/24/20
San Diego People
KUSI — 12/22/19
Book Review: Young Adult American Catholics
American Catholic Studies — vol. 130, no. 2 (2019)
US Congress, more diverse than ever, falls far short of country’s diversity
National Catholic Reporter — 2/25/19
Young Adult American Catholics
The CARA Report — Winter 2019
Assessing Catholic Campus Ministry
The CARA Report — Winter 2019
NCR Podcast: How (and why) Jews appreciate Catholics (my part comes in at 25:20)
National Catholic Reporter — 11/29/18
St. Anthony’s Messenger — November 2018
Culture plays role in US Hispanics’ muted response to abuse crisis
National Catholic Reporter — 11/13/18
Young Catholics’ essays invite readers to deep, authentic listening
National Catholic Reporter –11/7/18
Latinos could transform faith’s role in US politics
National Catholic Reporter — 10/27/18
https://www.thedigitaltheologian.com — 6/22/18
https://www.thedigitaltheologian.com — 6/14/18
“Ministry Seeks a More Just and Peaceful World”
The CARA Report — Winter 2018
Theologians praise San Diego’s pioneering synod
National Catholic Reporter — 11/4/16
Maureen K. Day, Ph.D. 