Last week we noticed some embarrassing corrections related to how newspapers described the Epistle to the Ephesians. In the comments, Godbeat veteran Ann Rodgers wrote: My paper today carried a Washington Post story about the memorial service for explosion victims in West, Texas, that said President Obama alluded to the “Books of...

            a) Joseph the Most Comely[1] leads the chorus of the celebrants at the great and universally important event of divine compassion, the path of the Lord to His voluntary suffering. In his person, the Gospel messages of reconciliation and forgiveness, of mature restraint and purity of heart all find their application. He himself may not h...

Senior clerics and church organizations are leading a campaign in opposition to a law, due to come into force on June 1, that will ease restrictions on organ donations....

When the world is raging and our thoughts are raging along with it, it's hard to be a person who seeks and finds peace....

Last week, tmatt reflected on how the above reading at Margaret Thatcher’s funeral was being portrayed by some in the media. It seems some had a rather narrow and inaccurate interpretation of the text. But I wanted to mention a couple of funny corrections affiliated with that text. People kept sending us emails about this [...]...

QUEST VOICES | The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer The headlines have been gruesome and the facts behind the stories are difficult to even read. We recoil at …...

Knock knock. Who’s there? Catholics, stealing a page from Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses and trying a little old-school evangelism .

Mormons, who sponsor more Boy Scout troops that anyone else, say they’re cool with the BSA’s new policy to allow gay Scouts but keep the ban on gay leaders.

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures…  (1 Cor. 15:3-4)

No statement is more central to the Christian faith than St. Paul’s rehearsal of the Apostolic Tradition – for his wor...

The Boston Marathon bombing on April 15th occurred while Washington politicians looked for ways to avoid restricting guns. The twining of events underscores the violence in U.S. society and the impotence of the political system. This tolerance for violence begs …...