Bombs came raining down; the night sky was punctuated with the light of streams of bullets; over 110 Tomahawk cruise missiles were launched from U.S. ...

It's not easy being green It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things And people tend to pass ...

You have to hand it to the Irish. Every March 17th, they put on the party of the season. Celtic or not, everybody ...

We were halfway through the hour-long walk back from a neighboring township to our village of Thembalethu, South Africa, when the dark, cloudy skies opened up and a torrential downpour fell upon us. We quickened ...

The revolution was televised -- as well as tweeted, updated and blogged. It began nineteen days ago with the "day of anger", as ...

On February 1, Lila Rose's Live Action organization debuted the first video of its biggest scoop yet -- an undercover video "sting" allegedly revealing Planned Parenthood employees aiding a purported sex trafficker. That same day, ...

I didn't think Revolution would feel like this. John Lennon, Tracy Chapman and other artists have made it sound so upbeat, so sure of its ...

Sitting at the dinner table after Mass one evening in those incredibly dewy and pious days of Jesuit novitiate, my novice brother Gary mentioned through a mouthful of broccoli that he thought the best way ...

For over 20 years, Homeboy Industries has offered a way out of ...

While putting away the Christmas decorations, I came across my daughter's letter to Santa. Most of her list contained items typical for a 6-year-old: bike ...

Ask most any twentysomething in the United States where they get their news from these days, and one of their ...

Hospice. The word sounds ominous enough when it's spoken in reference to an older person, but when it's used to describe the dying months of a 37-year-old woman, it ...

Every Sunday, all around the globe, a minor miracle is occurring that has gone almost unnoticed: despite continuing revelations about the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, somehow the churches aren’t empty. Despite all ...

As the days shorten and darkness covers our late afternoons and evenings, we naturally have some extra time to ponder significant moments of our lives. At holiday times, we remember Christmas and New Year celebrations ...

Christmas without spending money, to some, may seem like an impossibly stingy suggestion. However I can guarantee that these five tips will both make your Christmas season less hectic, and probably enrich others much more ...

Welcome to Extreme Sports: Jewish Style. Leave the suicidal snowboarding to the kids; as a rabbi, I'm more of a dreidel blackbelt. While it isn't ...

Recently, on a pilgrimage in Italy, I heard a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal relay in a homily one of the many stories of St. ...

Sitting on a packed Greyhound bus on Friday night, somewhere between Port Authority and Union Station, I panicked. I couldn't breathe; my cell phone was about to die. I was even thankful that the guy ...

A group of artists are taking public discourse back to the old days, when all you needed to get your thoughts heard was a pen ...

It may sound blasphemous, or at least juvenile, but Halloween is one of my favorite holidays. Not that it has anything on Christmas, but it's definitely in my top three. When I started my life ...