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.

‘I believe that today there is, in fact, a need for everyone to work to change the world situation, which is a situation of grave wounds, of grave conflict.’

As this year ends, it is crucial that we not shut the door—holy or otherwise—on the needs of those around us.

Blessed are those who look into the eyes of the abandoned and marginalized and show them their closeness.