A day after Pope Francis rocked the Catholic world with the publication of comments supporting civil unions for same-sex couples, Catholic bishops in New England are reacting with questions, nuance, or silence.
"What we have to create is a civil union law. That way they are legally covered. I stood up for that," the pope says in a new film about him called Francesco, according to Catholic News Agency.
It isn't November 3 yet, but more than one million Bay Staters have already voted.
As of the end of Tuesday, 1,001,275 ballots had been completed and returned — whether that was through the mail, via a local drop box, or voting early in-person. That's 21.5 percent of eligible voters in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as WCVB reports.
