1.2 million.  Number of abortions in the U.S. in 2005, down 8 percent from 2000 and the lowest per capita rate since 1974, according to the CDC.

945,000.  Number of monks and nuns worldwide in 2006, according to the Vatican, down 7,000 from the year before.  About 80 percent of those were women.

$4 million.  Amount University of Oxford researchers will spend to study why mankind embraces God.

15 minutes.  Amount of time allowed to 550 priests and deacons to give communion to 58,000 people at Yankee Stadium during Pope Benedict XVI's Mass in April.