As we move deeper into Lent and Good Friday approaches, Christians devote special time to reflect on the Passion. We contemplate the meaning of Jesus, Christ crucified, perhaps even taking ...

The excerpt below is from an article written by BustedHalo editor-in-chief, Bill McGarvey for the March 17 edition of The Tablet a venerable London-based magazine of "progressive, but responsible ...

The Man... March 17th marks St. Patrick's Day, the Catholic feast day for the patron saint of Ireland, who died on that day in the 5th century. ...

Robert Anthony Siegel's new novel All Will Be Revealed combines an engrossing plot with intricately drawn characters and a rich historical setting to create a book ...

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Verena Swann sat in her carriage, peeking through the curtain at the crowd of mourners filling the avenue. Derbies, bonnets, slick black umbrellas, here and there a pale, ...

The St. Vincent De Paul Catholic School elementary girls' basketball team was winning. Again. The Nashville school was almost all black, and they were playing a mostly white Catholic school. The ...

As a child, Lent represented a springtime of denial leading up to the chocolate-filled celebration of Easter, but as an adult I now understand a bit more why Christians ...

...Sr. Mary Eve responds... The reader response to Sr. Mary Eve's article on The Vagina Monologues has been nothing short of overwhelming. In one 24-hour period, more than 10,000 people read it—an all-time high for ...

I can count the number of times I've cried over the past decade on one hand, so I was surprised when I found tears rolling down my face ...

As the children of two academics who met while studying theology, growing up in the Byrne clan meant that religion was always about more than simply going to church ...

"Your faith has made you well," Jesus says to a woman who seeks out his healing presence. "Go in peace, and be healed…" (Mark 5:34). Many people who ...

It was a cold day in October, and I was walking down a street on New York's Lower East Side, toward a small wooden building with a flight ...

"The world is all messed up, the nation is sick, trouble is in the land, confusion all around." As the scourges of a never-ending war continue to dominate our ...

The morning Saddam Hussein was executed, my wife warned me not to go on the internet. Of course, I soon went online, but instantly knew I should have ...

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 ...

Paulist Father Dave Dwyer, CSP will be the host and on-air commentator for this year's Midnight Mass from St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. Dwyer, who is the ...

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 ...