WASHINGTON (AP) — The Museum of the Bible being built in Washington will feature ancient artifacts and treasures from the Holy Land under a new deal that ensures Israel's leading archaeological organization will have an outpost in the U.S. capital.
An agreement announced Tuesday between the museum and the Israel Antiquities Authority will bring a selection of artifacts excavated in Israel for long-term display in a top-floor gallery at the new Bible museum. The $400 million, eight-story museum is set to open near the National Mall in 2017.
Karl Keating is the founder of Catholic Answers, one of the nation's largest lay-run apostolates of Catholic apologetics and evangelization. For more than three decades, his career has been to patiently defend the Church, both in terms of its doctrine and its historical record, against attacks by those hostile to the Catholic Church.
But he also spars with those on the Catholic fringe, who espouse antagonistic attitudes to science and to the modern Church.
