On election day, voters in 10 states will vote on ballot initiatives related to abortion. If the past two years are any indication, I fear the pro-life movement can expect yet another round of bruising electoral defeats.

Cardinal Robert McElroy, Bishop Robert Barron and Bishop Daniel Flores talk with Gloria Purvis about their roles as shepherds in their dioceses and the U.S. church in an election year.

Few writers have ever captured in fiction the American religious sense that underlies so much of our history more than Willa Cather.

Gloria Purvis and Sam Sawyer, S.J., discuss the Catholic imperative to form and obey one’s conscience, especially around two key voting issues: abortion and racism.

On this week’s episode of “Inside the Vatican,” Colleen Dulle and Ricardo da Silva, S.J., interview Dr. Catherine Clifford, a professor of systematic and historical theology at St. Paul’s University in Ottawa, Canada, who served as an elected member of the 2024 Synod on Synodality’s drafting commission for the final document.

For Catholics who want to see immediate changes in the church, the synod was an opportunity for conversion.

The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors issued findings and recommendations in its pilot annual report, specifically calling for greater transparency from the Vatican’s sex abuse office, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.

A Reflection for the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, by Connor Hartigan

Some Catholic voters are struggling with their decision and may not make up their minds until it’s time to pull the lever—and that group could very well decide the election.