Catholicism

There's an old John Mulaney routine in which he imagines what one might say to persuade someone to convert to Catholicism.

Catholicism has rarely been more prominent in US politics as the Trump administration openly embraces advisers and officials who proudly say faith has shaped their politics.

This is despite the fact that many Filipino Catholics remain conservative on issues like gender and divorce, says Jayeel Cornelio, a sociologist who has written extensively on Catholicism in the Philippines.

The Reformation, which led to restrictions on practising Catholicism lasting centuries, was largely to blame.

While modern popes live and work in the Vatican, the Lateran church is sometimes referred to in Catholicism as "the mother of all churches".