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 ...

My last Pure Sex, Pure Love column bemoaned the craziness of the Bridal Registry. Instead of wasting hours, days, even months, learning about thread count and why you need a hostess set of silver, I ...

August may be behind us now, but last month offered two milestones we'd be smart to pay attention to. A month ago today, MTV marked its 25th anniversary, while ...

Catholic Suicide Dear Rocco, I will always read your impressive work, a gift handed down to you by no one other than God. I also felt unease about the women's ordinations on the river in ...

In June 2004 Rutba House, an alternative Christian community in Durham, North Carolina, developed this list of ideals meant to shape the nascent "new monastic" movement, which includes The Simple Way and dozens of other ...

Those of you who follow Catholic news might have heard about a ceremony last week in Pittsburgh. It took place in a boat, on a river… with tangerine trees ...

It's become a defining trait of my journey that much of it is spent in the "bridge and tunnel" traffic of crossing parallel universes. As it keeps things fresh ...

My husband says being Catholic, for him, is like being gray-haired or left-handed. It's self-evident, fundamental to who he is, but not something he wants to display on a ...

As it's a good mantra of the Christian journey, here's to new beginnings. With its daily focus on the arcana of all things Vatican and what happens behind the sacristy doors, some of you who ...

Thomas Ward agonized over a choice: should he cheat death by ditching his research or forge ahead and prepare to die? He decided to prepare to die. ...

In the beginning, was God. And sports was with God, and sports was God. Then, out of the muck and mire, God created man, and gave man authority to name all ...

He is a wiry bantam rooster of a man; a ball of nervous energy with brown hair and rectangular glasses sitting atop a Roman nose. From a row ...

David Allen's parents wanted him to see a psychiatrist. Why? Not because he was depressed, taking drugs or getting bad grades in college but because he wanted to convert to Christianity. Allen is one of several ...

Two years after my husband Greg and I were married, word came from his Aunt and Uncle in Florida that there was a problem with his grandmother. In one ...

Through The Gospel of Judas, one of the greatest historical discoveries in the history of humankind, the world’s eyes were opened to a revolutionary view of the ...

The fact that we know how director Paul Greeengrass' United 93 ends somehow makes the film all the more harrowing to watch. We know that the doomed September 11th flight out of Newark airport will ...

With its mix of equal parts "The Bachelor" and "Jackass" with a spiritual twist, A&E's new reality series, "God or the Girl" has people talking. The ...

Growing up Jewish in New York City, I had no idea that I was a member of a ridiculously small religious minority. That blithe unawareness had something to do ...

I was randomly surfing the web when I found your article on the Mohammed cartoons and, though it did offer insight into the Muslim thinking, I have to admit that I ...

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 ...