The 2024 United States election will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. The incumbent president, Joe Biden, a member of the Democratic Party, is running for re-election. Former President Donald Trump is the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party.
Although the GOP's platform will not include support for a nationwide limit on abortion, "No one should expect the pro-life movement to abandon the GOP," writes NCR's Michael Sean Winters.
The Vatican on July 14 expressed "concern" over the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump and said the attack "wounds people and democracy, causing suffering and death."
Bishop David A. Zubik of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, which includes Butler, said in a statement, "Let us join together in prayer for the health and safety of all, for healing and peace, and for an end to this climate of violence in our world."
The alignment of certain U.S. bishops with Christian nationalist political figures whose actions are at odds with Catholic values is contributing to the growing divide within the church.
A number of high-profile Catholics have ties to, and influence on, Donald Trump. Here is a brief overview of some key Catholic advisers and supporters who are expected at the GOP convention in Milwaukee next week.
Religion and politics frequently overlap in Reading, an old industrial city in one of the most pivotal swing states of this year’s presidential election.
Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, a Catholic and potential running mate for Trump, called for the deportation of "every single person who invaded our country illegally" in a campaign fundraising message.
It's not about fatigue or danger or age and endurance, writes Sr. Joan Chittister. It's about doing what we each need to do to help one another profit the whole country, the whole globe.
Thousands of clergy, union members and activists rallied on behalf of the poor near the U.S. Capitol on Saturday (June 29), with faith leaders calling for lawmakers to embrace a slate of policies and for low-wealth Americans to make their voices heard in November as the nation’s "largest potential swing vote."
MAGA evangelicals grab all the headlines. But it's swing state faith voters — Catholics, mainliners and Black Protestants — who will likely decide the election.
It is one of the saddest things about our democracy that the election will be decided by low-information voters who probably did not watch the entire debate last night, writes NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.
