“In our country, we need to start building bridges and bringing people together.”

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

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

An official with the Archdiocese of New York, where the video was filmed, called it “absolutely appalling.”

Many of the themes the pope touched on have played out in debates between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

“Hispanics in this area have not always felt that their voices have been recognized or heard...the push is, if we don’t vote, we will remain invisible.”

One of the more intriguing questions Pope Francis prompted earlier this year when he announced that a Vatican commission would study whether the early church had women deacons was: How would Catholics react to women preaching?

“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

Catholic Charities USA came in at number five, raising about $2 billion in 2015.

A new website called Catholic Women Preach will publish videos of women breaking open Scripture.