Worship & Religion

This Independence Day, stand up for the most vulnerable

Saturday, June 13, 2026

If you’ve ever seen the clearest and bluest of the Atlantic in the Caribbean, you have a sense of what the weather has been like in Washington, D.C., in recent days. I haven’t been here in a while, but it sure welcomed me back well.

The more we celebrate life, the more it will help end abortion

Kathryn Jean Lopez

Saturday, June 6, 2026

There’s a fury on the right about the Trump administration’s refusal to roll back Biden-era mail-order abortion-pill dispensing. The Biden change was supposed to be a COVID thing.Anyone who has ever paid any attention to life could have guaranteed you that was not the endgame, however.

We remember Bob Woodson and the message that remains necessary

Kathryn Jean Lopez

Saturday, May 30, 2026

Conservative civil rights leader Robert L. Woodson Sr. died in his sleep at 89 on May 19. He wrote “The Triumphs of Joseph: How Today’s Community Healers Are Reviving Our Streets and Neighborhoods,” published in 2007, a book whose message remains timely and necessary.

Well-informed conscience is beautiful to have, don’t waste it

Kathryn Jean Lopez

Saturday, May 16, 2026

Mother Teresa famously said, “the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion,” while standing on a dais with President Bill Clinton and first lady Hillary Clinton in a National Prayer Breakfast Speech in Washington, D.C., in February 1994. It was big news at the time.

Grief is a multifaceted mystery that many people fear, deny, reject

Saturday, May 2, 2026

In the wee hours of the morning on April 24, I realized I had missed the anniversary of the death of my dear friend Kate O’Beirne.I’ve been thinking about her a lot lately, as I typically do, but I didn’t do anything special or different to mark the occasion.

‘The Lord shows us how it is important to be happy in all situations’

Saturday, April 25, 2026

I once brought tears to the eyes of the new patriarch of the Chaldean Church. He’s known as Paul III now, but back in 2016 he was an archbishop, formerly of Mosul, in Iraq. He had recently been reassigned to Australia, where many an Iraqi had fled the so-called Islamic State (or “ISIS”) genocide.

‘Life is a gift and is meant to be lived in love for God and his people’

Saturday, April 18, 2026

If you don’t know former Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, he’s the first to tell you these days that he wasn’t ready for the fight of Washington, in some respects. He wasn’t a politician – honestly, the man is a nerd in the best of ways. He believed in the nobility of public service.

Christians sometimes actually live like Christians; it benefits everyone

Saturday, April 11, 2026

This is the question Catholic bishops are asking one another, according to Cardinal Robert McElroy of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. is “what is your number?

Judge says Penn must turn over information about Jewish employees

Saturday, April 4, 2026

(AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the University of Pennsylvania to hand over records about Jewish employees on campus to a federal agency as part of an investigation into antisemitic discrimination but said it did not have to reveal any employee’s affiliation with a specific group.U.S.

The power birthdays have on people who struggle with self-worth

Saturday, March 28, 2026

When most of us think of our birthdays, we probably have flashbacks to childhood.When I was 3, my parents put together a Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs party for me. The icing on the cake (pun intended) – besides the love poured into it – was the Dopey cookie.