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

Once grouped with the Irish and the Polish as a signally devout Catholic population, the citizens of Quebec are now quite the opposite.

Despite months of pre-election polls showing Catholics backing Hillary Clinton, exit polls show Donald Trump won a majority of Catholic votes on Tuesday.

St. Columba began celebrating Black Catholic History Month and Kwanzaa alongside the regular events in the liturgical calendar.

Archbishop Tobin is a man of simple lifestyle, committed to dialogue, encounter and the poor.

“Well, she read in the newspaper that you pick up after yourself and you cook your own food and wash your own clothes,” Archbishop Tobin recalled telling him. “She’s had it up to here with the sort of monarchic church!”The future pope laughed, and the remarks apparently