Amid news of the Rev. Jerry Falwell's death earlier this week, the coverage was predictable. Conservatives who benefited from the pioneering televangelist's forays into politics praised his stances and ...

The Rev. Jerry Falwell—founder of the Moral Majority and the leader of the religious right in the '80s—died Tuesday after he was discovered unconscious in his office. We ...

Each year hundreds of college students visit developing countries to volunteer on humanitarian projects, learn about another culture and foster solidarity with people whose poverty and trauma are ...

As a girl in Catholic school, Khadijah Rivera dreamed of becoming a nun despite the fact she feared Jesus. She was frightened by her church's bloodied statue of ...

Nina, a 27-year-old anesthesiology resident in New York City, met a man at a bar recently. After some flirtatious small-talk, he asked her what she did for work. ...

When Sr. Luma Khudher, O.P. speaks of her life and her countrymen in Iraq, she does not discuss politics, ideologies or even Saddam Hussein. Instead, the 30-year-old Dominican nun ...

The ocean was placid and calm as a group of ten of us held our breath for what was about to come. Suddenly, with awe-inspiring grace and fury, the surface ...

Ever since the Columbine high school massacre in 1999 and the Washington, DC Beltway sniper attacks of 2002, "lockdown" is a word that's been lifted out of the penitentiary ...

Despite my apparently wholesome life, I have a deep, dark secret, one so shameful that I must shroud my name in the mists of a pseudonym. I'm embarrassed to ...

Earlier this week, the Paulist Fathers —you know, the people who run this fine website—were the beneficiaries one of the more unusual product placements in recent memory when ...

What is it about Grey's Anatomy that transformed it from a sleeper, mid-season replacement show into a primetime phenomenon? Of course some will point to the well-written scripts or ...

Fr. Dave Dwyer and Mike Hayes' entrance into the world of podcasting in December 2005 marked a new chapter in the Paulist Fathers' great tradition of preaching "old ...

When he had risen, early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons. On the first day ...

Usually when St. Peter's denial of Jesus is recounted every Holy Week I find myself feeling somewhat superior. After all, Peter refuses to admit that he even ...

It is a small scene in Luke's Gospel— all of four verses—but it speaks volumes. Now one of the criminals hanging there reviled Jesus, saying, "Are you not the Messiah? ...

So look, if the divine made flesh really did roll into town to adulating crowds only to be betrayed, tortured, killed and then, holy god, rise from the ...

Beth didn't get the job. She'd known it was competitive but she'd nailed the interview and was almost sure she'd get hired. It would mean rather than her ...

I envy those people who say that Jesus is their best friend. I've never been able to understand how ...

filmed and edited by Kevin Martz for Food4Thought.tv As part of their Catholic Intellectual Series, Saint Joseph's University's Office of Mission & Identity organized a panel discussion entitled ...

Imagine being tortured and raped, and then being forced to watch as the ‘evil-doers' rape your daughter. All the while you know you do not have the ...