"You can't be a saint," one of my students told me, matter-of-factly. I was a bit troubled by this, as I had just told my class at an all-girls Catholic ...

As the many diehard fans of British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen had hoped, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan includes sixty minutes of ...

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 was a Catholic in a Protestant country. I was a gay boy in the Catholic church. I'm now an immigrant English person who came and made his life ...

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 ...

Syn Holliday is a family man with three young children, a loving wife and a suburban home next door to a devout Mormon family his children regularly play ...

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 ...

Visit Jerusalem in Orlando! Journey into the Sinai Wilderness! Expect to be inspired! These are some of the many exclamations splashed across the Web site for The Holy ...

Many Christians are familiar with the virtues of St. Mary of Egypt, who lived in the desert as a hermit for 47 years, devoting herself to God in ...

At first, clicking onto Fr. Bob Lubic's website seems like a relatively conventional Catholic experience in the internet age. The sublime sound of Gregorian chant wafts from ...

In the elevator riding up to a screening of the documentary Deliver Us From Evil, a fellow attendee, his voice the dictionary definition of sarcasm, asked, "So, ready for a great movie about ...

Chances are while you were having a cup of coffee this morning Fr. Stan Fortuna had already produced a new DVD, written a chapter for a book and recorded ...

CNS Photo Americans love their pets. More than 63 million households have one and the numbers are on the rise. We take our animal companions on walks, to the beach ...

He was a Harvard-educated PhD whose star was on the rise in Washington, a trusted adviser to several administrations with access to highly confidential information. All of that changed ...

Now that I live in North Carolina, I find myself explaining a lot. I grew up Jewish in New York, a place where it's equally likely to hear ...

As time goes on, and this column keeps evolving, I've found something interesting. For once, I hope I'm wrong on this one but, just in case, let me ...

In recent years I have found that I do not recognize many names on the Billboard music charts. Perhaps this is a sign I am getting older and ...

As I wasn't blessed with enough talent to be one, I've always kept a special place in my heart for musicians. It's part envy, of course—a friend ...

As the firestorm of reaction cools to some sentences in Pope Benedict's talk on September 12 at Regensberg University in Germany, the questions of the hour are: What lessons ...

When I was growing up my mother constantly reminded me that "the path to God is not easy" but as the child of an atheist father and—to my mind—an ...