In a year that is supposedly a test of “small-d” democracy, the voice of the voters seems fainter than ever.

The bishops cried out that “of all European countries, France is the only one where the number of abortions is not decreasing and has even increased over the last two years,” and that France “would have honored itself by instead promoting the rights of women and children.”

Christians are not a social club that gathers on Sundays to receive nice-sounding catchphrases. We are to influence the heart of society.

Even as Prime Minister Victor Orban positions his government as one of the last defenders of Christian culture in Europe, religious affiliation in Hungary has dropped to a record low.

The people who can abolish the death penalty are our policymakers. And it appears Mr. Biden is comfortable leaving it in place.

If in its first years, the bishops’ campaign for religious freedom seemed directed at the U.S. left, it is actors on the hard right who have now emerged as the most significant threat to religious freedom.