While flipping through my car stereo recently, I was shocked to hear Nelly say the F-word in his most recent song. Me and Nelly I'm not anti-Nelly. We did a movie together. Really. It's called "Snipes." ...

It was the last week of December when a co-worker came bearing delectable treats like cheesecake, cookies, and tarts. "Our department can't eat another bite," she groaned. I groaned right back. "Thanks, but we've been pigging ...

It rumbles near. The playoffs have ended, and the "Event," the "All" soon arrives, on February 1st, only the second time the Super Bowl has been played ...

"Some dreams can't be shared," warns the tagline for "House of Sand and Fog." And thus the ominous stage is set for dreams to collide: those of Kathy Nicolo (Jennifer Connelly) ...

In November of 2002, baseball's all-time hits leader had the following conversation with the commissioner of baseball, Bud Selig: "Yes, sir, I did bet on baseball," Pete Rose said during the meeting, ...

For years, self-help books have asserted that your thoughts influence your reality?that if you schlep through life feeling like a loser, the energies of the universe will make you a loser. In ...

Do you think same-sex marriages will be made legal in your lifetime?

"Do you ever think about your own mortality and about what happens after death?"

When he was eight, his mother had to go back to work to support her children when an Anglican relative withheld financial support because of her conversion to Catholicism. ...

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 ...

It's not often that a sexy cocktail waitress inspires a Catholic priest to write a book about faith journeys, but such is the case with Fr. Edward Beck's Unlikely Ways Home: ...

Forget Survivor Thailand. One of the most challenging, daunting threats to modern mankind's survival (and our sanity) is The Holidays . Now that they're over, it's time to assess the damage, see where ...

Separating life from art can be impossible in some cases; Angels in America is the most painful instance I know. Now that the award-winning Broadway play has ...

Gather forty strangers in one house and give them ten days to three weeks to learn music, dance routines, scenes, and monologues for a show open to the public. Is ...

We've been Touched by an Angel and even walked the Highway to Heaven. Yes, folks, divine intervention has found its way into prime time television ...

What I call the "Matrix phenomenon" is something I wanted to believe in and tried to understand. For a split second, this phenomenon allowed me to believe in ...

Let's not talk about sex Though the clergy sex abuse scandal garners its own chapter in this nearly 400-page tome, the crisis Peter Steinfels describes is not limited to priest pedophiles, hush ...

Ever wonder where Halloween traditions came from? Are they evil? Pagan? Holy? Fire FestivalsThe ancient Celts celebrated seasonal feasts to honor the gods of nature. Halloween's pagan origin was a fire festival known as ...

I am huge fan of reality television, but I never watched many network reality shows until I moved and my finances decided for me (to hold off on getting cable). My archaic rabbit ears only receive ...

I love reading books by my contemporaries. I picked up The Quality of Life Report and The Devil Wears Prada more out of curiosity about their young authors than ...