The Eighth Amendment prohibits “cruel and unusual punishment.”

It was a dark night and a bleak next morning. And then grace came.

Nebraska voters reinstated the death penalty. California, Nevada and Massachusetts approved measures legalizing the recreational use of marijuana.

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

‘I believe that today there is, in fact, a need for everyone to work to change the world situation, which is a situation of grave wounds, of grave conflict.’

Poll respondents cite Pope Francis on global warming and also call for a broad right-to-life agenda.