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Hollywood's 1903 "Passion Play" and History's 2018 TV "Life of Christ" span 40 years of the Jesus story on screen in English alone, with more than 30 in other languages. What is your favorite Passion Play movie for repeat Holy Week/Easter viewing? Your least favorite? Your most/least favorite Jesus/Pilate?

WASHINGTON – Whether it was deliberate or by accident, the Archdiocese of Washington announced on the 51st anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. the selection of its new leader, set to become its first black archbishop.

WASHINGTON -- Phally Budock, who will enter the church this Easter at St. Andrew Apostle Church in Silver Spring, Maryland, has always believed in God, but for a long time she did not understand why God allowed terrible things to happen, such as the atrocities she witnessed during the Cambodian genocide in the late 1970s.

WASHINGTON - Undergraduate students at Jesuit-run Georgetown University voted overwhelmingly April 11 to pay a new student fee that would be for reparations to the descendants of slaves owned and later sold by the school. The university said the vote "raises complex issues that we are prepared to grapple with and embrace."

Three bills have been introduced in Congress in recent weeks that would establish a small tax on employers and employees to fund leaves for childbirth and adoption, personal illness and caring for a sick family member.