Getting a Life: How to Find Your True Vocation by Renée LaReau, Orbis (2003), 158 pages. It seems to me life improves drastically after you hit 30....

Raising kids today is more challenging than it has ever been. Kids today just aren't as young as they used to be. I don't have any scientific research to back this up, but I do ...

Entire wars have been fought over it, British lords beheaded, Spanish mystics incarcerated, principalities set on fire, and now it travels the internet in search of friendships to destroy. It is religion. And ...

Art has the power to transform us into something better, something greater, so long as we don't merely place it on a pedestal. On my recent trip to Nicaragua, several images revealed the ...

It started with a simple physical. The doctor was almost done when, feeling my neck, she exclaimed, "Hello, what's this?" This turned out to be a lump , the size of a ...

You have heard this story: it's about a good man, a complex man who had the world at his feet, then watched it drop away; who gave generously, lived loudly, and ...

Though more than 90% of us in the U.S. say we believe in Him, God may seem no more real to many of us than, say, Arnold Schwarzeneggar?sure, we've seen Him in the movies (Morgan ...

Darn those yearbook photos?they always come back to haunt us and remind the world that yes, we once thought puka shell necklaces were the epitome of fashion. But a study at U.C. Berkeley found that yearbook ...

Guilt and shame are two Irish-Catholic traits that are as typical as corned beef and cabbage on St Patrick's Day to Irish-Americans. It's one thing to be Catholic, but to be an ...

Sammy Sosa's seven-game suspension for bat corking ended last week, amidst much snickering and two very respectable singles. He refers to the incident in which his bat shattered, revealing a chunk of cheating squirreled into the ...