"The good news for humans is that it looks like peaceable conditions, once established, can be maintained" says primatologist Frans de Waal. "And if Baboons can do it, why ...

Jim Shepard and Ron Hansen are two of America's most esteemed contemporary fiction writers. They are also fast friends and Catholics (in very different ways, as our interview reveals)....

FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover once called Michael Lerner the most dangerous man in America because of his anti-Vietnam war activities. A sixties radical and member of the ...

As television newscasters were reporting every night for weeks back in April 2002 on the story of Israeli troops surrounding Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity and the Franciscan Monks who had ...

It seemed like only a year ago we had buried the Super Bowl censorship debate for good. When Paul McCartney took the stage with his piano in ...

Since the fall of the Berlin wall roughly 8 million Eastern European women have gone missing. Most have been trafficked into sexual slavery in North America, Asia and the ...

When she was 13-years old and working as a waitress near Vera Cruz, Mexico, Rosa was offered an opportunity to make more money as a waitress in the United ...

Ok, I admit it…in the Bible the men pulled off some pretty incredible feats: Moses parted the sea; Elijah called down fire from heaven to incinerate the wicked priests of Baal; ...

By the time he was in his late twenties, Peter Manseau had already received a bachelors degree in religion, spent time in a Trappist monastery considering a vocation to ...

Who is Jesus? Who is God? Is it possible to discuss them apart from theological abstractions, as personalities with distinctly individual ways of seeing the world? And if so, ...

As a cultural historian and author, Garry Wills has spent more than three decades researching and writing on historical figures like Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan (his ...

As Christmas Day draws closer and crèche scenes start to pop up in New York City, I inevitably begin to think about the Holy Family. But this Christmas, as my ...

On Christmas Eve, after returning from the Catholic children's service, my family and I will sit down to a dinner of 7 vegetarian dishes. The main course will be ...

It seemed to be a simple enough question requiring an even simpler answer. While running for President in 1976, Jimmy Carter responded to a political supporter who—in front of ...

Photos by Andrea Milo Witches and vampires have been very good to Anne Rice. Since Interview with the Vampire was published in 1976, the New Orleans native has sold more ...

While our nation's ongoing war in Iraq is still a hotly contested issue, for many of us it remains just that, one issue among many in an overheated climate of ...

With two major studio movies about exorcisms released in the past year (The Exorcist: The Beginning and The Exorcism of Emily Rose) and the re-release ...

This past February BustedHalo published an extended interview with Fr. Gerard Thomas, a celibate, gay priest who--using an assumed name for fear of reprisal--spoke very candidly about the presence ...

CNS Photo Considering their limited number (nine), their lifetime appointments and the far-reaching effects of their decisions, the nomination and confirmation of a Supreme Court justice is an infrequent ...

I set off on my recent mission trip to Nicaragua with every intention of spending a week in service to poor orphans and with the hope that ...