This week, we talk with Steven P. Millies about the role of U.S. Catholics in politics.

President Donald Trump billed the midterms as an election about "Kavanaugh and the caravan," and it was — although not entirely as he planned.

After a shooting spree late Nov. 7 at a country-music bar in Thousand Oaks, about 40 miles from the heart of Los Angeles, Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles asked people to "pray hard" for the victims and their families.

Exit polls indicated that immigration was second only to health care in the minds of voters.

Thousands of Catholics in one of the world’s poorest nations are objecting after the church asked the government to collect a 10 percent tithe from worshippers on its behalf.

"Unfortunately, in many countries where people do not have normal access to safe drinking water," what is not lacking "is the supply of weapons and ammunition, which continue to deteriorate the situation," the pope said in a message published Nov. 8.