Dozens of Catholics were among more than 2,000 religious and community leaders who urged Congress to reject any effort to overturn the results of November’s presidential election.

They’re Democrats and Republicans, Catholics, Protestants and a Buddhist. But they all graduated from a Jesuit high school, college or university.

In 2021, are we going to continue believing the worst of every one we encounter online? Blogger Amanda Knapp (“Indisposable Mama”) writes that Catholics can lead a different way.

The 117th session of Congress got off to a testy start on Sunday, including an opening prayer from an ordained member whose pairing of “A-woman” with the traditional “Amen” raised both hackles and questions about the meaning of the word.

Philip Allen Lacovara, who served as special counsel to Watergate prosecutors, described the president’s call to election officials in Georgia as “a new low in Trumpian mendacity and abuse.”

‘I rediscovered crossword puzzles. A way to feel like I’m putting some pieces in place that stay there.’

‘Hope is an active verb. You don’t have hope if you just stand on the sidelines.’

Who were some of the U.S. Catholics who were regularly in the news this past year?

2020 has tested the heart and soul of America.

The White House issued a proclamation honoring the 850th anniversary of the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket Dec. 29 and inviting "the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches and customary places of meeting with appropriate ceremonies."