Easter is more than one day — it’s an entire season of the Church year that begins with the Easter Octave. The gospel readings during the Octave include some of the most beautiful passages of scripture from the time after Jesus’ resurrection and his first encounters with his friends and disciples. These readings remind us of the importance of Jesus’ resurrection and the power of his ministry here on earth. Jesus appeared to his friends & disciples…

Busted Halo has created a series of virtual stations designed for personal devotion. They relate to Jesus’ teachings about the Kingdom of God and the reason it led to his death. Find a quiet place to watch, and be open to how God is speaking to you through the Stations of the Cross.

The Triduum (TRIH-du-um) is the time of the Church year when we celebrate the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This three-day celebration begins with the Holy Thursday Mass and continues on Good Friday with the Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion. At the end of this liturgy, we leave the church in silence, waiting to celebrate the glory of our Lord’s resurrection. Then, on Saturday at sun down, the Church re-gathers to celebrate the final, and most grand, moment…

Honestly, I love fast food. I specifically love Wendy’s. As a teenager, I discovered their spicy chicken sandwich (add cheese for 30 cents), and that was it for me. It’s still a fixture in my diet, and I really appreciate the fast-food workers who make that happen for me on a regular basis.

During Lent, I joined nearly 1,500 people of all faiths and embarked on the Fast from Fast Food. Throughout the fast, we honored the great sacrifices workers are making in the struggle to end…

Christians, or at least the ones I know, do not much like to think or talk about Hell. How could a loving God send anyone, no matter how egregious their sins? It is a theological question probably as old as theology itself.

The list of people whose residency in Hell we are most inclined to consider is brief. Hitler. Stalin. And, of course, Judas.

If anyone is worthy of eternal damnation, surely it is the person who enabled Jesus’s crucifixion, particularly given the fact that person…

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At Busted Halo we believe everybody has a halo, some are just a little more busted than others.

This St. Patrick’s Day, we’re hitting the streets to see whose faith trivia halo is nicely polished, and whose is a little less shiny.

St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated on March 17, and is the traditional religious feast day of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. The Irish have observed St. Patrick’s Day as a religious holiday for over a thousand years. On St. Patrick’s…

With four minutes to Mass time, St. Casimir’s was jammed. The grand Byzantine church was so large, it would pass for a cathedral in most cities. A barrel-vaulted ceiling led to a huge dome over the altar. Earthy brick offset paintings of angels rejoicing in blue-lit skies.

We looked up in wonder, but back on the ground, we needed to jostle for a pew. A gray-haired couple smiled, giving us the okay to squeeze into theirs. And then the choir sang out in Polish. “Bóg sie rodzi,”…

Monday was Day 20 of Lent. The halfway mark presents an opportune moment to reflect on how everything has gone so far and make changes where needed. How have we maintained our Lenten promises? How have we fallen short? What has been easy? Challenging? What has surprised us at mass or in prayer? Where have we recalled God’s presence? When have we had a hard time seeing the Spirit’s hand in our lives?

If I am being honest with myself, my commitment to my Lenten practice –…

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Tom Hanks once said about his craft, “Everybody here who creates comes across moments where it is just so naturally easy. You don’t even think about it. It just rolls out of your fingers or rolls out of your mouth…and it’s so clean and so pure and so free of artifice that you can almost recreate it any time you want to. But then come those moments where a clunk is on the page or a moment is, a motivation is…you can’t conceive it in your own head, and it confounds you ‘til…

Americans shop for everything — so why not churches? I’ll admit I’ve never liked the phrase. It reduces believers to consumers, and it implies that there’s this perfect-for-me church everyone can find, just like the right outfit. Ideally, our connection to a community of faith goes deeper, especially because there can be big differences in the teachings between even Christian denominations.

As a practical matter, though, most of us move at least once in our lives.…

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For hours now, snowflakes have been floating down outside my study’s window. A thousand-mile stretch of the northern U.S. has just been hit with a snowstorm.

At least, the news reports call it hit — or clocked, pounded or pummeled. Americans share a societal dread of cold weather. Since air-conditioning made summer more bearable 60 years ago in places like Arizona, Florida, Texas and Georgia, tens of millions of Americans have migrated from the Frost Belt to the Sunbelt.…

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And now, based on your voting, the awards for the Lenten Academy Awards…

With the Oscars fast approaching (and a few other awards shows in between) we’re all focused on actors, movies, special effects, snubs, historical inaccuracies and, of course, fake babies. Here at Busted Halo®, we’ve been doing some nominating of our own. We’ve weeded through volumes of potentials and narrowed our list down to the six Catholic saints we think best characterize movie awards season.

Whether you’re swooning over a specific actor, loving the red…

Lent is a time for personal conversion, a time when Christians strip away all that is unnecessary and become more mindful of their dependence on God. Our Fast Pray Give Lent Calendar will give you a moment of spiritual contemplation each day, and new and practical ideas for fasting, prayer and almsgiving.