In Ohio's race for the U.S. Senate, voters will choose between two Catholics: Tim Ryan, a Democrat backed by Catholic social justice movements, and J.D. Vance, a Trump-supported Republican backed by pro-life activists.
While praising the work of the House of Representatives in 2019, Network denounced the Senate for refusing to take up a single vote on what the Catholic lobby group sees as critical social justice legislation.
"Remind our senators that they alone are accountable to you for their conduct." Every day, the Senate chaplain would plead to the heavens for courage and integrity. Alas, he got little of both.
We say: The real significance of the midterm results lies deeper in the details of who won, where the Democratic wins occurred beyond the national offices, and how it all happened.
Distinctly Catholic: In his ongoing analysis of the midterm elections, Michael Sean Winters looks at a current polling and some of the institutionalized hurdles to change.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York decried the Senate's failure to pass the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would have banned abortions after 20 weeks of gestation, and called on senators to "rethink" their stance on late-term abortions.