"Hi, I'm Christine," I said, nervously announcing the obvious as I stepped into my fiancé's aunt's living room for Thanksgiving last month. Peter and I had gotten engaged over ...

Keisha Castle-Hughes, the 16-year-old unmarried actress who plays the Virgin Mary in the new movie, The Nativity Story, is pregnant by her 19-year-old boyfriend. Last week CNN could ...

I don't often show it, but I'm a bit of a political animal. In college, I majored in political science with a primary concentration in American politics alongside an independent ...

I've been really busy recently. I've been dashing into church 10 minutes late because I had to send "just one more email." During Mass, I've been thinking about work rather than paying attention to the ...

The save-the-date cards are rolling in with a frequency usually reserved for bills (this weekend, I'll be at the third family wedding of the year). Many of my friends ...

Shiena is an East Indian anesthesiology resident in New York City. Her parents want her to marry an Indian man for cultural and religious reasons. Instead, she's been dating ...

Note to BustedHalo readers from Christine: In February 2005 I wrote an article for BustedHalo under the title, "Overqualified for Love?" where I asked readers to share their thoughts on ...

Among the first pieces of advice for the newly engaged couple is to set up a wedding registry as soon as possible. If you don't, you'll get six toasters ...

When Madonna's Confession's Tour came to New York City last week, I was one of the screaming fans in a jam-packed Madison Square Garden. I've wanted to go to Madonna concert ...

Perhaps it was because I went to an all girls' school, but when I got to college, most of my closest friends were guys. I've got great photos of me being held up by six ...

Opposite-sex friendships are great, and can be completely uncomplicated. Or they can get you into a whole heap of trouble. Sometimes a movie hits a chord in the ...

John was attending a work cocktail party with his girlfriend Angie when they had a fight. Angie attends receptions for her job all the time, but this was the ...

In March of last year, I met a handsome, witty man named Peter at a black-tie charity benefit in New York City and we talked until the wee hours of the morning. From the start, ...

I gave a talk recently on sex and dating to a group of Catholic 15- and 16-year-olds in New York City. Since my normal audience is young-adults—Catholics in their 20s and 30s—I planned to ...

The wedding season is upon us and BustedHalo readers have written in with great questions about religious protocol as we celebrate our friends' marriages. Does attending a Saturday evening ...

Since I began writing this column, scores of readers have emailed me asking for personal advice. I always offer whatever thoughts I can, and usually end letters by recommending that they ...

On the Friday after Easter I attended the wedding of my friends Andrea and Simon in Oxford, England. Andrea and Simon are both studying to be vicars, so they have many ...

For more than a year, I've been writing the Pure Sex, Pure Love column for BustedHalo. We've covered some big topics: When to bring up your faith in a new relationship, how to make sure ...

The Bible tells us "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he" (Proverbs 26:7) and the Buddha is quoted as saying "What we think, we become." Our ...

At 11pm on February 9th my husband started with pain in his chest. At midnight he woke me up and said, "I don't think I'm ok." We drove ...