One rabbi who studied it grew crazy, one died and another became so bewildered that he lost his faith. According to Jewish tradition, the study of the Kabbalah ...

Edith Hoskins knows exactly the point in her life when she turned to drugs. From the age of eight until she was 11, she watched her stepfather beat her ...

What's the best gift you've ever received? Classic big-ticket items like cars, jewelry, or expensive electronics might be hard to top but I'd be willing to wager ...

Perhaps best-known as the man with the Cinderella story who catapulted the St. Louis Rams to a win in Super Bowl XXXIV, Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner is also ...

My family has a problem with presents. They make us nervous. Because of some inexplicable guilt or money-related anxiety, receiving gifts makes us feel uncomfortable and ...

The catalogs and television commercials are full of smiling families greeting each other with holiday joy- gleeful reunions full of peace and goodwill. What they don't show is the ...

As Cambodians visited temples and gave alms on their ancient day of the dead in September 2004, I was holding a diaperless newborn. I had been working for a newspaper ...

I don't really know what I want for Christmas. Sure, I want to have my Christmas cards done by my traditional (but never-heeded) deadline of December 10th. I'd like ...

Keisha Castle-Hughes, the 16-year-old unmarried actress who plays the Virgin Mary in the new movie, The Nativity Story, is pregnant by her 19-year-old boyfriend. Last week CNN could ...

By the age of thirty, David Kuo was already a seasoned veteran in the highly specialized political warfare that takes place inside the beltway. First as an assistant to ...

Near the end of The Nativity Story, the manger scene is as still and precisely framed as the crèches children play with under Christmas trees. The crib is ...

Howard Stern, Martha Stewart, Eminem and now Father Dave? Beginning on Monday December 4, Paulist Father Dave Dwyer will join Sirius satellite radio's growing roster of on-air talent when ...

In high school my best friend, Cathy, who went to an all-girl's Catholic school kept telling me, "The nuns say I have a calling." We used to crack ...

At the time, Rice's much-anticipated second album was still in production. Ironically, last week, while spending time with high priests of a different sort, Rice's new album, 9, was ...

In uncertain times, we are invariably drawn to absolute truths that help us make sense of the world. One such immutable verity is the ...

In the wake of the midterm elections that created such a seismic shift in the American political landscape it is easy to forget that, not long ago, the entire ...

Most of us can identify certain teachers or mentors who have had a profound impact on our lives. The same can be said for particular books that have shaped ...

"You can't be a saint," one of my students told me, matter-of-factly. I was a bit troubled by this, as I had just told my class at an all-girls Catholic ...

As the many diehard fans of British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen had hoped, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan includes sixty minutes of ...

I don't often show it, but I'm a bit of a political animal. In college, I majored in political science with a primary concentration in American politics alongside an independent ...