I remember building a snowman in my backyard with my older sister when I was about 5 years old. It was there that snow became the great equalizer. While she piled ...

I stepped on the scale the other day and it read: Please get off of me, you fat bastard! Somehow the scale that used to read around 180 or 190 pounds has recently moved closer toward the ...

I'm the Thanksgiving Day Scrooge. I truly think that Thanksgiving is simply a sham, a humbug, if you will. It's a day that makes us all feel a little better about ourselves for thanking God ...

Catholics believe in the "real presence of Christ" in the Eucharist, but as a concept I think it's short-sighted at times. Not to knock the Eucharist as something ...

Art has the power to transform us into something better, something greater, so long as we don't merely place it on a pedestal. On my recent trip to Nicaragua, several images revealed the ...

Guilt and shame are two Irish-Catholic traits that are as typical as corned beef and cabbage on St Patrick's Day to Irish-Americans. It's one thing to be Catholic, but to be an ...

I went to Saved , a new comedy about teenagers in a Christian high school expecting to get a few laughs at the expense of bible-based yokels. ...

I don't like President Bush. There, I said it. I don't think he makes many wise decisions. I didn't support his decision to go to war, and I suspect that ...

I was talking with my wife recently about how someone we know shelters her children. She protects her children from the daily tragedies that she encounters and controversy never enters her ...

According to baseball superstition, the Chicago Cubs and the Boston Red Sox are cursed. The Red Sox curse came in 1920, courtesy of Babe Ruth, the Bambino himself, ...

The "Fab Five" have done a complete make-over of the Vatican this past week prompting His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, to say, "It is as it was." ...

March is nearly upon us, as is the brink of war. Usually when I think of March I tend to think of college basketball and March Madness, also known as the NCAA's ...

Recently we had the opportunity to babysit our friends' 10-month-old baby boy. Matthew is a quiet and happy baby, smiling and ready to play. When our friends Maria and Andy went to a wedding, we ...

TDeath has been on my mind in the past weeks, as I've had four different friends all lose a parent or grandparent. Usually such moments set ...

I hate reality TV. I think reality TV creators pander to the lowest common denominator so often that I'd rather sit and eat paste with kindergarten children than watch one ...

December 13—This morning in Rome it was announced that the pope had accepted the resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law, the Archbishop of Boston. This brings to an end one part of the yearlong priest sex ...

"How will history remember you?" That is the question that Mr. Hundert (Kevin Kline ) puts to the boys of St. Benedict's Prep School in his classics classroom. He asks himself ...

It seems like most couples get a "pass" during the first year of married life. This is the time when they simply get to know each other, spend time together, laugh, enjoy ...

My friend Dave Connors was 25 when he died of complications from heart surgery. For as long as I knew Dave, he was hampered by physical ailments, but I ...

The movie Barbershop is a nightmare for people like the Rev. Al Sharpton. Black leaders have taunted the creators of Barbershop for remarks that disparage the reputation of Dr. Martin ...