I was up late but had agreed to an early brunch with friends, so after about five hours of sleep I'm on my way to ...

Nancy's whole career has been in pharmaceutical communications. After watching round after round of layoffs at her firm over the past two years, her ticket ...

One evening last month, while surfing YouTube, I stumbled across a five-part slideshow on the incorrupt bodies of saints. Having once been a soul mate ...

I love rocking chairs. Whenever I go on retreat, as I did last week, I hope that they have a rocking chair at the retreat ...

The promise of meditation is not the 20 minutes of refuge from an otherwise insane day, wonderful as that may be. The promise is to gradually ...

"Am I an alcoholic?" "Am I an addict?" At some point, many of us look back on our drinking or using and question it: question ...

Our Fast, Pray, Give calendar is getting some big time attention! National Public Radio's website, npr.org, asked BustdHalo's editor-in-chief Bill McGarvey to write a commentary on alternative Lenten fasting practices. They've asked us our readers ...

We asked for your ash shots and you didn't disappoint! We may not have the sophisticated technology necessary to determine our readership demographics as precisely as we'd like, but at least we know you love your ...

It's an experience that any Catholic will understand. You decide that you'd like to stop by church on Ash Wednesday to get the obligatory ashes ...

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, the 40 days of preparation for the Easter season when Christians are called to renew their commitments to ...

He should have honored their ways. When a county health inspector threatened to press charges against the members of Oyotunji ...

I had to explain it to the priest as I stood fidgeting with my cell phone antenna. No, my fiancee isn't Catholic or Jewish, and he wasn't baptized. I ...

Eyes of friends and strangers alike immediately fall to the arm, the shoulder, the back, or perhaps even to the unnaturally elongated earlobe ...

I came out of childhood with no sense of being a particular gender, and no ...

On June 28, 2007 at the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside-the-Walls, Pope Benedict XVI announced officially that a special Jubilee Year dedicated to the Apostle ...

A family member of mine recently said, "Shellie, I've accepted that you are working in the sex industry." My thought? "It's about time."...

Emilie Lemmons, a writer and mother of two (although as she would say "not necessarily in that order"), is someone few people outside of the Minneapolis/St. ...

I had a TV in my room from a very early age, giving me control over the cultural influences that entered my world. Using my ...

Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ, who died at 90 on December 12, was the scion of a legendary family (his father, John Foster Dulles, was Secretary ...

I didn't want my children to know. They were waiting for a baby to be placed in a manger. The doll, the placeholder for our ...