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The Wahlbergs are many. There's actor Mark, actor-rapper Donnie, and Wahlburgers chef and subsequent reality-TV star Paul.

Louisiana voters by a wide margin Nov. 3 passed a measure declaring there is no state constitutional right to abortion, while Colorado voters defeated a proposal to ban abortion beginning at 22 weeks of pregnancy.

The U.S. remains in uncertainty about the presidential race after Election Day, as a counting of the vote continues, showing Democratic candidate Joe Biden ahead in electoral votes, but not by much.

On the day Blessed Michael McGivney was beatified in a cathedral in Hartford, Connecticut, a prayer service to celebrate the event took place hours later in a high school gym more than 1,000 miles away.

The United States and 32 other U.N. member nations have signed on to the Geneva Consensus Declaration, which reaffirms the inherent "dignity and worth of the human person" and states that "every human being has the inherent right to life."

As election polls opened Nov. 3, church leaders joined leading faith-based organizations in calling for unity and peace throughout Election Day and afterward as voting results are known.

After studying all the election issues, praying about them and making a decision, "what better place is there for people to take their troubles than the Blessed Sacrament?" asked Deacon Joe Urbiel of Christ the King Parish in Detroit.