No one should feel complacent about the divisions this election emphasized and exploited, which run far deeper than political allegiances.

Relations between the Holy See and Vietnam are moving ahead in a positive way.

The Eighth Amendment prohibits “cruel and unusual punishment.”

Once grouped with the Irish and the Polish as a signally devout Catholic population, the citizens of Quebec are now quite the opposite.

The call to liberalize Ireland’s abortion laws has created significant political pressure.

It was a dark night and a bleak next morning. And then grace came.

"We're talking about killing a human being," said Aubert Martin, executive director of a grassroots anti-euthanasia organization. "This is criminal."

Nebraska voters reinstated the death penalty. California, Nevada and Massachusetts approved measures legalizing the recreational use of marijuana.

'The Exercises are a means to an end, but not an end in themselves. We shouldn’t mystify them or turn them into a third testament.'

Despite months of pre-election polls showing Catholics backing Hillary Clinton, exit polls show Donald Trump won a majority of Catholic votes on Tuesday.