Elections 2024

Row of voting booths at polling station during the 2020 American election.
Row of voting booths at polling station during the 2020 American election. (photo: Vesperstock / Shutterstock)

Voters in the United States are preparing to elect the next U.S. president in 2024. The Register covers the presidential election as well as congressional and other races nationwide through the lens of Catholic social teaching.

Palestinian Christians celebrate Easter Sunday Mass at Holy Family Church in Gaza City on March 31, amid the ongoing battles Israel and the Hamas militant group.

People Explain ‘Why I Go to Mass’

‘Why go to Mass on Sundays? It is not enough to answer that it is a precept of the Church. … We Christians need to participate in Sunday Mass because only with the grace of Jesus, with his living presence in us and among us, can we put into practice his commandment, and thus be his credible witnesses.’ —Pope Francis