Respondents who named health care as their priority for state elections frequently specified the issue: how universal health care would benefit everyone.

"I thank her and I want you to know her name: Sister Cornelia Caraglio."

Children in the U.S. have a 70 percent greater chance of dying before adulthood than in comparable nations. Guns, car accidents and lack of access to health care are to blame.

Life expectancy has dropped in the U.S. for two consecutive years. Guns, drugs and car accidents are deadlier here than in peer nations.

Transgender patients “need to know they are welcome and they will not be looked down upon” if they come to Catholic institutions seeking treatment, says Sister Carol Keehan.

The pope greeted the children and “exchanged some words of comfort with the parents who are caring for their children in their tiring and painful trials.”