After college I had to have my own apartment. Like so many other young women, I saw this independence as an exhilarating and gratifying rite ...

Every Sunday, all around the globe, a minor miracle is occurring that has gone almost unnoticed: despite continuing revelations about the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, somehow the churches aren’t empty. Despite all ...

In my recent interview about the spirituality of being on time, I talked about the fact that the spiritual answer is not just to ...

The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Father Dave highlights the fact that not just the Family of Jesus is a holy one, but indeed all families are holy. (Preached ...

Isaac Thomas Hecker died on December 22, 1888, at the Paulist House on 59th Street in Manhattan. As the following biography of Hecker illustrates, being a ...

Is being polite honest? Young adults aren't quite sure. And as Christmas and New Year's parties abound this time of year, there are lots of ...

Still struggling to find a Christmas gift for someone? Consider these suggestions we've made recently. If you have someone on your list who would appreciate a ...

As the days shorten and darkness covers our late afternoons and evenings, we naturally have some extra time to ponder significant moments of our lives. At holiday times, we remember Christmas and New Year celebrations ...

Fr. Larry Rice and Fr. Dave Dwyer offer suggestions on gifts for the holidays that keep on giving: fair trade products, shares in Catholic Relief ...

Christmas without spending money, to some, may seem like an impossibly stingy suggestion. However I can guarantee that these five tips will both make your Christmas season less hectic, and probably enrich others much more ...

I don't think it was my parents' goal to raise a family of passionless, non-churchgoing Protestants of an indeterminate denomination, but my religious education was ...

We look to the holiday season to lift our spirits and yet come January we are sometimes utterly depressed because our expectations were not met. ...

While everyone has been going crazy over Yeshiva University's Maccabeats Chanukah video, let me share this with you by my friend and spoken word artist Danny Raphael.

A while ago, just as summer was ending, I went to an art opening at Yale University. I met a student, a young girl about 18 years old, who possessed the kind of guileless beauty ...

How do you listen to God? Please give to our Double Your Dollars Holiday Fund Drive @ www.bustedhalo.com. Church Search for the Immaculate Conception. 12-8-10.

At Busted Halo® we love getting feedback about how we're doing -- what we're doing right, how we can better serve you, and why you care about our ministry. So this holiday season we ...

Recently, Jill, 29, a long-time Busted Halo reader finishing up her medical school residency, emailed me to ask if there is such a thing as ...

Welcome to Extreme Sports: Jewish Style. Leave the suicidal snowboarding to the kids; as a rabbi, I'm more of a dreidel blackbelt. While it isn't ...

It's remarkable (though not really) how easily we can forget the emotionally charged things that happen in a day. The problem is that if we ...

Do you value an open and lively discussion about faith? Do you care about a Catholic media outreach that welcomes those ...