Outside the Beltway

We don’t know much but the early details are all too familiar.

The Irish singer-activist is gone at 56.

The Pope Emeritus has died at 95.

The threat is not idle and the options for responding are not good.

The effort to bring Catholic Church officials to justice for their decades of criminal conspiracy and child abuse continues to move forward.

In the latest development in the child sex abuse investigations in the Catholic Church in the United States, five former Priests in Michigan have been arrested on sex abuse charges.

Pope Francis defrocked former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after decades of allegations of abuse of young boys and seminarians.

Pope Francis accepted the resignation of the Archbishop of Washington, D.C this week, but his letter reveals that he still has a blind spot when it comes to the Catholic abuse scandal.

Several states are opening new investigations of the Catholic Church abuse scandal. It’s about time.

Pope Francis took the rare step of sending a letter addressed to all of the world’s Catholics on the sexual abuse scandal. Words are fine, but they need action to back them up.

Unlike most world leaders, Pope Francis is wiling to call a genocide a genocide.

Pope Francis restates something the Catholic Church has taught for a long time and, again, the American media thinks its something new and revolutionary.

On Sunday, it’s the Day Of Four Popes.

Apparently, the security at Tuesday’s memorial for Nelson Mandela was so lax as to be nearly non-existent.

Not surprisingly, Time’s editors chose Pope Francis as Person Of The Year. However, Edward Snowden arguably would have been the better choice.

He may be praising Ronald Reagan now, but Newt Gingrich was singing a different tune in the 1980s.

Could Newt Gingrich really become the Republican nominee? Stranger things have happened.

There was a somewhat disturbing moment during last night’s GOP Debate.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has mastered the worlds of bodybuilding, show business, and politics. Next, he’s going to try his hand at being a Marvel superhero.