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Less than two weeks before the presidential election, a new poll indicated President Donald Trump has lost the so-called "Catholic vote" and that his nomination of a Catholic to the Supreme Court, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, did nothing to change that equation.

The battle for New York's 14th District offers a study of contrasts between two Catholics: U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and John Cummings, a former police officer and a teacher for 22 years.

While media focus on white Catholics in swing states, Black and Latinx Catholics are asserting their own political voice amid protests for racial justice and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

The most important religious group to the 2020 presidential election is not really a religious group at all. 

Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Lincoln Project's musical take; Catholic social doctrine is what the country needs; 30 years of religious liberty claims; reclaiming populism.

Distinctly Catholic: As I have been arguing, the only lies the president tells that really matter are the lies that affect people's lives. Now, we need to amend that to include lies that affect people's deaths.

President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden appealed to the nation's Roman Catholic voters on Oct. 1 during a charity dinner that traditionally has been used to promote collegiality and good humor.

President Donald Trump is expected to be in virtual attendance Oct. 1 as New York City's annual Al Smith Dinner moves mostly online because of the coronavirus pandemic, organizers said.