Babe Ruth's Curse isn't dead until the Red Sox win a World Series
True Red Sox fans know the pain and hardship of loss. Historically, their team doesn't simply lose, they invent new
and creative ways of doing so. A ...
To whom can a religious person turn for mental health?
At a recent engagement encounter retreat, one of the many Catholic marriage prep programs offered to engaged couples, a couple inquired about marriage counseling "in case we ever have need for it in the future." ...
August 15 is the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in which Catholics believe that Mary was assumed into heaven, body and soul after her death.
This ...
Paulist Father John Ardis counts the Democratic Presidential nominee as a member of his flock.
John Kerry's nomination in 2004 marks the first time a major party has nominated a Roman Catholic for president since another senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy, secured the ...
"Can you come and see me?" said his ex-girlfriend over the phone months after they went through a bitter and hurtful breakup.
"And why would I want to do that?" ...
Schizophrenia has often been popularly misconstrued
as split or multiple personality disorder along the lines of what was shown in the 1976 television movie Sybil, the true story of a ...
There's been yet another casualty in the culture wars that have raged in the United States over the past decade. On August 18, 2004, Deal Hudson, publisher of the ...
In the first part of this series, we explored what sexual addiction is and examined how easy access to pornography on the internet poses a problem for those who struggle with sexual compulsivity.
This second ...
BustedHalo looks at Sexual Addiction and Internet Pornography
There can be little doubt that the technological revolution that brought the power of the internet to the average consumer over the past decade has opened up enormous possibilities ...
Fr. Jim Martin's recent article recounting the worst homilies ever heard sent an all-too-familiar chill through my born and bred Catholic bones. Unfortunately, I've also sat in the pews many times thinking that ...
