Any cop will tell you it's the guilty who run at the scene of a crime. Believe that and you'll find Vice President Dick Cheney's disappearances during recent terrorist alerts puzzling. During ...

"Turbo props are ok. They won't hijack a turbo prop," my ex-boyfriend insisted as I squirmed and looked for more reasons not to fly to my upcoming family reunion four ...

A few weeks before she finished her pharmacy degree, my younger sister called to tell me she'd just been offered a job paying something like $60,000 a year. My mind sprouted dark, envious thoughts as ...

There's a favorite story in my family that goes something like this… My father-in-law, a Frenchman, had just arrived in Latin America. He made his way to the government offices in the capital to get his ...

The Cuban exile now living in Canada told the Cubans at the World Youth Day celebrations in Toronto: "If there is any way I can help you at all, please let me know." Ismael Sambra spoke ...

After reviewing the latest proposals from the U.S. Catholic bishops, I was pleasantly surprised with many of their recommendations. However, the writers of this document still don't get it. Don't get me wrong, many of the ...

Twenty years ago this past week a 27-year old Chinese-American man and a few of his friends walked into a Detroit bar to celebrate his bachelor party. A few hours later Vincent Chin was dead. Who ...

How about $0? Now, before you get into your car and head over to my place to tar and feather me, please rest assured that I, like you, believe that the Catholic Church owes a very ...

A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. -JOSEPH HELLER I just received an invitation to a wedding in India from ...

Mike and Marion Perracchio pronounced their wedding vows at 11 a.m. on Saturday morning, April 20th, in New York City. Their column will be returning soon, but here are ...

Ever since growing up in Frazee, Minnesota, a small town with a population of 1,700 people, and living next to two Lao families, I had a dream of going to the Thailand/Laos. (Similarly, both ...

It was until my freshman year in college that I read the book "Farewell to Manzanar" - the true account of a Japanese-American family's struggle as prisoners in a U.S. internment camp during WW II. ...

 I knew a local cartoonist out in California named Paige Andersen, who one year near Election Day rendered drawings of improbable right-wing and left-wing extremists. I don't remember the details. The right-winger was probably armed ...

It was an early April morning when I awoke to the news that an American pilot had bombed a Canadian training exercise in Afghanistan and killed four Canadian soldiers. I sighed and prepared for the ...

One of my favorite buttons, which I attached to my backpack during my freshman year in college, was one that sported a photo of Frank Sinatra and read, "It's Frank's world; we just live in ...

As images of war fill a greater share of the nation's TV news, many Catholics are tuning in to organizations like Pax Christi USA to uphold the doctrine of nonviolence. A peace movement ...

It's widely recognized that children who grow up in the midst of criticism tend to criticize others. Children raised with violence are at risk for perpetuating violence as adults. And children who grow up with ...

Catholic high school boys battle adolescent angst while devising pranks against authority figures in the imaginative, entertaining, and heartbreaking film, "The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys" (ThinkFilm). This adaptation of the late Chris Fuhrman's novel, directed ...

Could it be that the United States is suffering a severe case of "sympathy envy" these days? Surely no other nation's been too keen on the morality of U.S. war aims since it earned the honor ...

 The other day a priest I know, wearing his roman collar, was walking down the street in Manhattan. A mother and her toddler child were heading in the opposite direction. When she saw my friend, ...