Dr. Ronald E. Smith on how to interpret Pope Francis' recent voting guidance for Catholics in the United States.

Iowa City Catholics are divided on who they will vote for in the presidential election after Pope Francis told U.S. Catholics to vote for “the lesser of two evils.” He condemned both presidential ...

Some Catholic voters are struggling with their decision and may not make up their minds until it’s time to pull the lever—and ...

The Vatican’s Synod on Synodality was nothing like papal gatherings of cinematic lore, but it clearly reflects Francis’s view ...

U.S. Catholic bishops mostly have tempered their remarks about the presidential contest between Kamala Harris and Donald ...

In advice last month for Catholic voters in America, Pope Francis said that both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris “are against life, be it the one who kicks out migrants or be it the one who kills ...

Jews, Muslims, Catholics and other faiths may be more fractured than usual in the 2024 election. Here's what the numbers say.

All things considered, neither of the major party candidates merits a Catholic’s vote. Nor is either candidate acceptable as ...

Francis celebrated All Souls’ Day Mass at the Laurentino cemetery, on Rome’s southern outskirts. Ahead of the Mass, he stopped for a silent prayer at the graves of children who were never born, an ...

I HAVE YET TO SEE a single Catholic priest come out in open antagonism toward voting in the coming election. All the priests ...

Contrary to common newspaper usage, I am not the Catholic candidate for president, I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for president, who happens also to be a Catholic.” Despite this clever ...