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WASHINGTON – In voting on 2008 ballot questions across the country, the Catholic Church’s view against same-sex marriage prevailed, but most Catholic efforts to influence voting related to abortion, assisted suicide, embryonic stem-cell research and gambling failed.

WASHINGTON – Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, president of the U.S. Catholic bishops, congratulated President-elect Barack Obama on his “historic election” Nov. 4 as the first African-American to win the White House.

PHOENIX – Despite the fact their candidate trailed in every major national poll, supporters of Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain of Arizona still guarded a quiet hope that the “maverick” would pull off a miracle on Election Day.

WASHINGTON – Catholics pretty much voted the way the rest of the country did Nov. 4, even backing Democratic Sen. Barack Obama a little more strongly than the electorate overall, according to exit polls.

KOGELO, Kenya – Kenyans took to the streets Nov. 5 to celebrate President-elect Barack Obama’s election victory as the first African-American president of the United States.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI sent a personal message to President-elect Barack Obama Nov. 5, congratulating him and offering his prayers for Obama and for all the people of the United States.

Dennis M. Murphy gestured toward bare shelves in the walk-in refrigerator at Our Daily Bread in Baltimore.

More than a year ago, students from three different Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore promised they would come together to refurbish a fire-damaged home in the Sandtown neighborhood of Baltimore City.