A story about U.S. Rep. Bob Ney agreeing to plead guilty to accusations of conspiracy to commit fraud.

A collection of news articles and opinion pieces from around the world about political corruption.

Richard Ledet and Patrick Flavin at the University of Notre Dame published a research report exploring the relationship between the amount of religious people in the state and the amount of corruption found among the state’s politicians. Although the two expected that a more religious population would yield less corruption, they found no relationship between the […]

A story on President Bush’s proposal of $1.9 billion in aid to students affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Read the government’s past updates on its “Hurricane Help for Schools” program (the site is no longer updated past August 2006). Private schools and religious schools are eligible for aid.

The Rev. L. Shannon Jung is professor of town and country ministries at St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri. He has written about rural ministry. His books include  Hunger & Happiness: Feeding the Hungry, Nourishing Our Souls and Food for Life: The Spirituality and Ethics of Eating.

Mark E. Graham is an associate professor of moral theology at Villanova University, Villanova, Pa., and the author of Sustainable Agriculture: A Christian Ethic of Gratitude. He has taught courses on Christian environmental ethics.

After Florida ruled its voucher program unconstitutional, families and students must find other schools or new funding while opponents of school vouchers celebrate their victory.

Florida lawmakers will decide whether or not to expand the state’s school voucher plan.