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

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.

While Americans overall have grown less religious, young men have bucked the trend and now outpace young women for the first time.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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%).

U.S. adults remain more likely to say that sex between teenagers is morally wrong (54%) than morally acceptable (42%). But the percentage who find it acceptable has grown since 2013.