Helping drive up Mr. Trump's numbers, some Catholics say, were clergy and parish leaders.

Maybe our nostalgia for “better days” is simply a case of buyer’s remorse.

A majority of Catholics—52 percent—voted for Mr. Trump.

I still think Mr. Trump is unfit for office. But the American founders knew they were building a Republican system that would check executive power.

Clinton's loss says more about the enduring presence of sexism in our society than about populism.

That comment about “clinging to their guns and Bibles”—maybe that was the beginning.