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The Catholic Alliance, formed in 1995, held the website until mid-2002. The next owner of the domain name was Larry Cirignano, founder of Catholic Vote, later called Catholic Citizenship. He used the domain for six years until mid-2008. [14] [15] The Fidelis Center began operating the domain in October 2008, initially redirecting it to ...
A Catholic at the top of the ticket, John Kerry, lost the 2004 election to incumbent George W. Bush, a Methodist, who may have [clarification needed] won the majority of Catholic vote. [4] The 2012 election was the first where both major party vice presidential candidates were Catholic, Joe Biden and Paul Ryan .
Choir dress of a cardinal, in scarlet Cardinals are senior members of the clergy of the Catholic Church. As titular members of the clergy of the Diocese of Rome, they serve as advisors to the pope, who is the bishop of Rome. They are typically ordained bishops and generally hold important roles within the church, such as leading prominent archdioceses or heading dicasteries within the Roman ...
The College of Cardinals, more formally called the Sacred College of Cardinals, is the body of all cardinals of the Catholic Church. [1] As of 1 March 2025, there are 252 cardinals, of whom 137 are eligible to vote in a conclave to elect a new pope. Cardinals are appointed by the pope for life but eligibility to vote ceases at the age of 80.
The Catholic Church encouraged Catholic workers to join the CIO "to improve their economic status and to act as a moderating force in the new labor movement". [27] Catholic clergy promoted and founded moderate trade unions, such as the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists and the Archdiocesan Labor Institute in 1939.
Catholic Democrats is an American not-for-profit organization of Catholics to support the Democratic Party, based in Boston, United States.The Catholic Democrats have more than 60,000 members in all 50 American states and Puerto Rico.
The residual Yankee Republicanism combined with the popularity of the Republican incumbent Eisenhower allowed Nixon to take a decent 39.55% of the vote, but by 1960, the ethnic Catholic vote held a decisive majority in Massachusetts, and turnout among Catholic voters reached record highs in 1960.
A two-thirds supermajority vote is required to elect the new pope. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The most recent papal conclave occurred in 2013 , when Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected as Pope Francis , succeeding the retiring Benedict XVI.