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June 16th, 2009
Chemical reactions and Eucharistic reconciliation
A friend once told me, with a girlish smile, that when she receives Communion, she is so moved by the thought that our Lord gave ...
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June 15th, 2009
The star of The Passion of the Christ discusses faith, Hollywood and his new film The Stoning of Soraya M.
Being at the center of one of the highest grossing movies of all time can be both a blessing and a curse for an actor. ...
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June 8th, 2009
Becoming free from alcoholism and addiction requires spiritual help, not self-help
If you are an alcoholic or addict, being spiritually unfit can be fatal. If not literally fatal then, as in my case, a living death ...
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May 27th, 2009
Let your yes mean yes and your no mean no
I always considered myself honest, and I had a lot of pride attached to that. I had a boss once who would stare you in ...
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May 13th, 2009
Notre Dame, Obama and the Church in Culture
For some it was the shot heard round the world. When Cardinal Francis George got up to preach on a cold Saturday evening more than ...
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May 11th, 2009
It's hard to be spiritually fit when you're running on fumes
I was up late but had agreed to an early brunch with friends, so after about five hours of sleep I'm on my way to ...
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April 22nd, 2009
Using the economic downturn to reevaluate your life's choices
Nancy's whole career has been in pharmaceutical communications. After watching round after round of layoffs at her firm over the past two years, her ticket ...
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April 16th, 2009
Meeting the incorruptible saints whose bodies seem to defy decay
One evening last month, while surfing YouTube, I stumbled across a five-part slideshow on the incorrupt bodies of saints. Having once been a soul mate ...
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April 9th, 2009
The challenge of Good Friday
I love rocking chairs. Whenever I go on retreat, as I did last week, I hope that they have a rocking chair at the retreat ...
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March 11th, 2009
Our inaugural What Works column tackles the toughest question some people ever face
"Am I an alcoholic?" "Am I an addict?" At some point, many of us look back on our drinking or using and question it: question ...
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March 6th, 2009
BH on NPR...SEND IN YOUR COMMENTS!
Our Fast, Pray, Give calendar is getting some big time attention! National Public Radio's website, npr.org, asked BustdHalo's editor-in-chief Bill McGarvey to write a commentary on alternative Lenten fasting practices. They've asked us our readers ...
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February 26th, 2009
...and we love you for it
We asked for your ash shots and you didn't disappoint!
We may not have the sophisticated technology necessary to determine our readership demographics as precisely as we'd like, but at least we know you love your ...
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February 24th, 2009
Busted Halo's Ash Wednesday Challenge
It's an experience that any Catholic will understand. You decide that you'd like to stop by church on Ash Wednesday to get the obligatory ashes ...
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February 24th, 2009
besides giving up chocolate
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, the 40 days of preparation for the Easter season when Christians are called to renew their commitments to ...
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February 9th, 2009
Inside a "voudou" village in South Carolina
He should have honored their ways.
When a county health inspector threatened to press charges against the members of Oyotunji ...
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February 5th, 2009
What to do with a husband who "isn't anything"
I had to explain it to the priest as I stood fidgeting with my cell phone antenna. No, my fiancee isn't Catholic or Jewish, and he wasn't baptized. I ...
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February 2nd, 2009
The growing trend to tattoo your faith on your sleeve
Eyes of friends and strangers alike immediately fall to the arm, the shoulder, the back, or perhaps even to the unnaturally elongated earlobe ...
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January 26th, 2009
An excerpt from Anne Rice's memoir on her spiritual journey back to faith
I came out of childhood with no sense of being a particular gender, and no ...
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January 22nd, 2009
A brief, mixed-media biography of Christianity's Great Communicator
On June 28, 2007 at the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside-the-Walls, Pope Benedict XVI announced officially that a special Jubilee Year dedicated to the Apostle ...
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January 14th, 2009
XXXChurch is not a sex site (kinda)
A family member of mine recently said, "Shellie, I've accepted that you are working in the sex industry."
My thought? "It's about time."...
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