FOR GOD’S SAKE | Having handily passed through the Florida House, and expecting easy passage through the state Senate, the “Application of Foreign Law in Certain Cases” bill, could soon be the law in Florida. What is the bill all …...

GEORGETOWN/ ON FAITH | The bombings at the Boston Marathon brings homegrown terrorism back into the spotlight. Suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were born in Russia, but, as President Obama recently, “Why did these young men who grew up and …...

Washington’s Holocaust Museum marks its 20th anniversary today with more than 750 survivors, but some are worried about what will happen when no eyewitnesses remain, our own Lauren Markoe reports.

The AP traces  Zubeidat Tsarnaeva’s journey from Joan Jett look-alike to hijab-wearing conspiracy theorist. She reportedly discussed jihad...

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 …...