Julie Bourbon

This year's Catholic Social Ministry Gathering coincided with March for Life. Organizers hoped for more crossover between participants, to create greater cohesion between the two often separate communities.

Day "understood how to live an authentic life," says filmmaker Martin Doblmeir. With "Revolution of the Heart," he hopes to bring her to a wider audience at a time when she's needed more than ever.

Perspective: It was about four hours from the time of my arrest to my release. Later, I imagined spending more than a month in the dirty, sweaty clothes I was wearing

The night before President Donald Trump's State of the Union address, a panel of experts held a dialogue on the immigration debate impasse, noting US obligations towards immigrants.

With a long career in filmmaking, Frank Frost, 78, and his wife, Mary, 72, are working on a documentary about the French Jesuit and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

"Faith and the Faithful in the Midterm Elections" was another in a series of talks sponsored by Georgetown University's Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, Nov. 19, which covered how divided Catholics are and how race affects politics.

Tenants hope to purchase the rent-controlled buildings and turn them into a co-op. But the basilica would have to lower the asking price in this gentrifying neighborhood of Washington.

The clergy sex abuse crisis stirred anger and anguish during the latest dialogue put forward by the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life.

"Crisis of Faith? Scandal, Pope Francis, the Synod, and Young People" was a discussion to address aftermath of the latest revelations in the ongoing sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church — and ways young Catholics can support each other.

A vigil and protest that included survivors of clergy sex abuse in D.C. was one of several scheduled across the country by an ad hoc group calling itself Catholics for Action.

Washington: Evangelical leaders, political strategists, pollsters, journalists and labor leaders wrestled with the questions of whether the two dominant political parties have a religion problem, the ways that current politics are changing religion, and how religion is changing politics.

The final panel of Georgetown's "Faith and the Faithful in U.S. Politics" series revealed that Democratic Party leaders and members have very different agendas regarding religion.

What are the roots of our current state of cultural discontent and division? What role can Catholic social teaching play in bringing together a divided nation? A panel discussion about these things was June 3, part of an ongoing series of dialogues on religion and society sponsored by Georgetown University.

Book review: As a thought exercise and as a refresher on Scripture, Gina Messina's Jesus in the White House: Make Humanity Great Again is both enlightening and a little bit humbling.

An ebullient church service on May 24 intended to "reclaim the integrity of faith during political and moral crisis" segued into a silent candlelight procession through the capital city's downtown streets before ending in prayer and song about 90 minutes later opposite the White House.

Figures from across the conservative landscape gathered at Georgetown University to debate whether religion contributes to polarization, or if it can help overcome divisions.

National investment in widespread infrastructure improvement would create jobs, raise wages and help create a more inclusive economy — key to eradicating hunger and poverty in the United States, a new policy recommendation by a Christian anti-hunger lobby says.

March for Our Lives: The Washington, D.C., march organized March 24 by students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after the Feb. 14 mass shooting there drew hundreds of thousands of people.

In a conversation framed around the book A Pope Francis Lexicon, Catholic commentators gathered to discuss his pontificate on the fifth anniversary of his election.

Lead author of DACA legislation offers hope to the Dreamers and criticism for Speaker Paul Ryan