2009-11-23T13:33:09Z Georgetown University scholars explore religion in the news. tag:newsweek.washingtonpost.com,2009:/onfaith/georgetown/628 Copyright (c) 2009, WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive 2009-11-23T13:33:09Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-11-23:/onfaith/georgetown2009/11/as_archbishop_of_canterbury_rowan.html

FAITH IN ACTION By Katherine Marshall As Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams occupies a unique position in the religious world, with the potential to bridge religious and secular. As leader of Britain's established religion, he engages constantly with political leaders. So the title of his recent speech in London jumped out at me: "Relating Intelligently to Religion". Heaven knows, surely that's what we need. As part of a series of seminars organized by the Tony...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Katherine Marshall 2009-11-23T13:46:52Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-11-22:/onfaith/georgetown2009/11/j_street_and_the_jewish_divide.html

WATCH Jacques Berlinerblau's video interview with Hadar Susskind, Director of Policy and Strategy for J Street. FAITH COMPLEX By Jacques Berlinerblau A few weeks back it was hard to be Jewish in Washington D.C. and not hear about the ructions surrounding J Street -- the "Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace Lobby." Truth be told, it was hard to be Outer Mongolian in Washington D.C. and not hear about the ructions surrounding J Street. Strangely enough--it never ceases to...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Jacques Berlierinblau 2009-11-20T18:23:15Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-11-20:/onfaith/georgetown2009/11/mcdonnells_subtle_refutation_of_robertsons_hate.html

JUST LAW AND RELIGION Michael Kessler A friend's Facebook link took me to a CNN article that I thought would infuriate me. The headline was "McDonnell won't disavow Robertson's Islam remarks." What CNN failed to articulate was, to my surprise, that Virginia Governor-elect McDonnell sounded more Madisonian than Robertsonian....Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Michael Kessler 2009-11-18T18:10:33Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-11-18:/onfaith/georgetown2009/11/god_notre_dame_country.html

Unorthodoxy By Patrick J. Deneen This past weekend I had the pleasure and privilege of attending a conference at the University of Notre Dame entitled "The Summons of Freedom." The conference was sponsored by The Center for Ethics and Culture, an interdisciplinary program founded and directed by Professor David Solomon of Notre Dame's Department of Philosophy. It was the 10th annual conference held by the Center, though the first I attended. Based on what I...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Patrick J. Deneen 2009-11-16T13:43:34Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-11-16:/onfaith/georgetown2009/11/were_seeing_many_calls_to.html

FAITH IN ACTION By Katherine Marshall We're seeing many calls to conscience these days. Nibbling breakfast, I clicked on a video where Jacques Diouf, head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, calls on people everywhere to sign an appeal to the World Food Summit that begins November 16 in Rome. He counts aloud to six, then reminds us that in that time a child has died. Karen Armstrong launched a Charter of Compassion...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Katherine Marshall 2009-11-13T18:37:41Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-11-13:/onfaith/georgetown2009/11/catholic_charities_gays_and_dcs_poor.html

This Catholic's View By Thomas J. Reese, S.J. If you believed what you read on blogs and in newspapers, you would conclude that the archdiocese of Washington is threatening to withdraw money for food and shelter from the poor in the District of Columbia in order to get its way on gay marriage. What are the facts? For decades, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington has received money from the District of Columbia to...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Thomas J. Reese 2009-11-13T18:48:07Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-11-12:/onfaith/georgetown2009/11/adrift_in_cairo_is_washington_listening_1.html

ISLAM AND THE WEST By Daniel Brumberg Egypt, a country of some 82 million people, once was the intellectual, strategic and political hub of the Arab world. But today, Egypt is adrift. Cairo seems more crowded, more polluted and more chaotic than ever. The country is suffocating under a cloud of political ineptitude, apathy and cynicism, the likes of which I have never seen in Egypt. I wish I could say that the problem has...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Daniel Brumberg 2009-11-12T23:36:52Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-11-12:/onfaith/georgetown2009/11/social_injustice.html

Unorthodoxy By Patrick J. Deneen On many of today's contemporary college campuses, there are sponsored programs and organizations that seek to advance "social justice." While contemporary universities constantly invoke "critical thinking" as a central activity of campus life, rarely is the term "social justice" examined. At the dawn of the western tradition, Plato devoted an entire dialogue - the Republic - to the question of "what is justice?", at the end of which the question...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Patrick J. Deneen 2009-11-12T17:18:17Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-11-12:/onfaith/georgetown2009/11/fort_hood_a_crime_or_act_of_war.html

By Ariel Glucklich professor of theology, Georgetown University The recent tragic events at Fort Hood made me think of the 2004 presidential elections, when President George W. Bush berated Sen. John Kerry for describing the fight against terrorism as a police matter. For Bush and many others, it was a war, a war against terror and more than that, a great conflict between two cultures and worldviews: freedom and democracy on the one side and...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Ariel Glucklich 2009-11-10T15:43:04Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-11-10:/onfaith/georgetown2009/11/health_care_moves_beyond_abortion.html

This Catholic's View By Thomas J. Reese, S.J. With the adoption of a House floor amendment banning the use of Federal money for abortion, the U.S. bishops are no longer opposing the Democrats' health care reform plan; in fact, they are supporting expansion of it. With the abortion issue dealt with, the bishops can now speak strongly in support of universal health care. "We believe universal coverage should be truly universal, not denying health care...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Thomas J. Reese 2009-11-10T13:49:57Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-11-09:/onfaith/georgetown2009/11/aicha_ech_channa_a_gutsy.html

FAITH IN ACTION By Katherine Marshall Aicha Ech Channa, a gutsy Moroccan woman, has worked for five decades with young unmarried mothers, who stand at the very bottom of the social heap in her country. Even if their pregnancy resulted from rape, they are condemned as prostitutes and thrown out by their families, and their babies are stigmatized as bastards. For her work Mrs. Ech Channa just received the world's largest faith-based prize for social...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Katherine Marshall 2009-11-09T15:09:24Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-11-06:/onfaith/georgetown2009/11/color-blind_discrimination.html

JUST LAW AND RELIGION Michael Kessler This week, Keith Bardwell quit his post as Justice of the Peace for the Eighth Ward of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. This would hardly be noteworthy except that Bardwell refused to marry couples from different races. Outrageous. But did Maine just sanction discrimination of a different sort?...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Michael Kessler 2009-11-07T04:17:11Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-11-06:/onfaith/georgetown2009/11/birth_control_and_the_human_ecology.html

Unorthodoxy By Patrick J. Deneen In a recent edition of Georgetown's student newspaper, the Hoya, a graduate student in my department voiced her shock and consternation that the university health plan does not cover birth control prescriptions. The online version of the article has generated heated commentary, with people on the respective sides - for or against Georgetown's policy, one that reflects respect toward the Catholic position on artificial birth control - largely (and typically)...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Patrick J. Deneen 2009-11-04T18:08:30Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-11-04:/onfaith/georgetown2009/11/love_the_alien_as_yourself.html

This Catholic's View By Thomas J. Reese, S.J. Octavio Gonzalez, a graduate of Georgetown University, would be picking corn and raising a few cattle in El Teul de Gonzalez, Mexico, if his father had not illegally trekked across the hills at the U.S.-Mexico border near San Ysidro, California, in 1969. Mr. Gonzalez never planned to stay permanently in the U.S., but he wanted something better for his children after he married a woman who had...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Thomas J. Reese 2009-11-02T13:37:31Z tag:washingtonpost.com,2009-11-02:/onfaith/georgetown2009/11/a_more_civil_discourse_idealistic_pragmatism.html

FAITH IN ACTION By Katherine Marshall Political discourse these days seems more fitted to Halloween than All Saints Day. Angels and devils, witches and shamans. Rancid prose. We all wonder and worry at the nastiness that shows up in political campaign ads, the polarized news outlets, and beyond. Yet much as we yearn for civil discourse, we need to recognize that this strain of vitriol is, and has been, very much part of the American...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.

Katherine Marshall