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November 8th, 2011
Therapy dogs help a range of people in nursing homes, schools, and even a Barnes & Noble bookstore
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November 4th, 2011
As Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests continue across the country, Busted Halo® went to visit the protest in Zuccotti Park in New York City to see what role people of faith are playing in the ...
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October 13th, 2011
How a recent grad survived joblessness and found direction from a friend
After graduation, mascara barely dry from losing the remaining ties to my old life, I joined my former professor’s weekly networking group. I had been ...
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September 19th, 2011
“I actually enjoyed unemployment.”
I don’t remember who said this to me, but I do remember agreeing. It seems strange to enjoy an unwanted thing, ...
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September 16th, 2011
Here we go, it’s just about fall, and that means it’s football time. College football is quickly becoming the new religion in this country, and ...
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September 7th, 2011
The first picture I ever saw of Father Mychal Judge was a photo of his dead body. In the days following 9/11, I was haunted by the image of four men carrying the New York ...
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September 1st, 2011
Standing With the Unemployed in Faith, Hope, and Solidarity
God calls us to announce the good news of God’s preferential option for the poor, for those who suffer the most among us. Indeed God’s love enfolds the entire human community equally and unceasingly, but ...
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July 29th, 2011
Ever since the Oslo attacks my heart has started racing a little faster every time I board the U-Bahn in the morning. It races even faster when I disembark and make the 10-minute walk through ...
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July 27th, 2011
Fleeing war and famine, fighting off attacks from bandits and lions, thousands of refugees are flooding out of Somalia on foot each week. Busted Halo contributor Laura Sheahen, a communications officer with the humanitarian aid ...
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July 22nd, 2011
"When our first child was born, my husband said, 'Now I have a son to avenge my family.' He named our baby boy Rambo."
I usually associate the birth of a baby with fuzzy booties, not ...
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July 20th, 2011
Hare Krishna old-timers keep the faith
Kusha Devidasi gaped in horror as her cat moved in for another kill. A vegetarian, Devidasi had tried everything to get him to stop devouring God's feathered creatures, even putting a bell around his neck. ...
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July 7th, 2011
As a girl growing up in Alabama, I thought I knew tornadoes. Drills in the school hallway were routine. Standard protocol at the sound of sirens was to grab a pillow before huddling in the ...
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June 22nd, 2011
The downside of all the non-consumption advice
Blogs on "minimalist living" clutter the internet these days with suggestions on how to pare down one's possessions, work commitments and daily routines. The minimalist ...
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June 6th, 2011
Taken from The Freshman Survival Guide
So you've just graduated high school. Congratulations! When people ask you, “So what are you doing in the fall?" you know the answer. Maybe you've ...
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May 24th, 2011
A questioning look at this strange Catholic tradition
Is anyone else as creeped out by martyrs as I am? As a Catholic convert, I still find parts of the church strange and alien, ...
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May 12th, 2011
Staying true to my faith despite human error
God save my Franciscan education, but there has been a distressing trend in the history of our Church. Various popes in our nearly 2,000-year history ...
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May 5th, 2011
...without a trip to Taco Bell
I've never celebrated Cinco de Mayo. Granted, I didn't know too much about the holiday, even while growing up in Texas. But I knew that ...
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May 4th, 2011
A look at the responses to bin Laden's death
I was going to stay quiet on the whole issue of the public reaction to bin Laden's killing, but after an hour or so of ...
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April 12th, 2011
How the Freshman Survival Guide came to be
On the eve of the publication of their book, co-authors Nora Bradbury-Haehl and Bill McGarvey discuss how, over the course of six years, an evening ...
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