WASHINGTON – Jesuit-run Georgetown University has created a culture that helps students understand that serving others and being committed to something larger than themselves is important in life, according to one school official.Read More

All Scouts have a promise, oath or law to abide. Certain ideals are common to each oath – a “Duty to God” being one. Scouting does not dictate what god a Scout must honor – that is of one’s own choosing. Faith and belief are the key elements. In the Scout Law, it is known...Read More

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama created by executive order Feb. 5 a White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, which will expand upon and rework the Bush administration’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.Read More

Given the unique status of the Holocaust as an icon of evil in a morally confused world, Holocaust-denial triggers revulsions similar to those triggered by blasphemy in the Middle Ages: the Holocaust-denier must be shunned, for everyone else’s moral health. Thus it was completely understandable that, when Pope Benedict XVI lifted the excommunications of four...Read More