“Abortion is now legal in Michigan at an unprecedented level, and millions of lives are at stake,” wrote Detroit Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron in a letter to Catholics.

Besides casting votes in the flashier congressional races, Catholic voters will get to speak up on any number of local and regional concerns through local ballot measures.

A Reflection for the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, by Cristobal Spielmann

A Reflection for the Twenty-seventh Thursday in Ordinary Time, by Cristobal Spielmann

A Reflection for the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, by Cristobal Spielmann

How do you keep things in perspective and maintain a faith life when you are trying to figure out new friends, new freedom and the location of your classes?

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time, by Cristobal Spielmann

Chileans will get to vote on Sunday as to whether or not to adopt a new constitution. Chilean Catholics face a document that supports some Catholic ideas of equality and community yet also codifies abortion and euthanasia.

Joshua Masterson, the writer and illustrator of "The Catholic Cartoon," uses modern technology to embrace an old-school cartoonist's style.

The pope will create 20 new cardinals on Aug. 27. Sixteen of them are eligible to vote in a papal conclave, and 11 are from or based in countries outside Europe and North America.