| January 1st, 2004 "Do you ever think about your own mortality and about what happens after death?" |
| December 12th, 2003 J.R.R. Tolkien's Work and his Catholic Faith When he was eight, his mother had to go back to work to support her children when an Anglican relative withheld financial support because of her conversion to Catholicism. ... |
| December 10th, 2003 Caring for the Temple of Me I stepped on the scale the other day and it read:Please get off of me, you fat bastard! Somehow the scale that used to read around 180 or 190 pounds has recently moved closer toward the ... |
| December 3rd, 2003 Unlikely Ways Home: Real-Life Spiritual Detours It's not often that a sexy cocktail waitress inspires a Catholic priest to write a book about faith journeys, but such is the case with Fr. Edward Beck's Unlikely Ways Home: ... |
| December 1st, 2003 The Holidays Forget Survivor Thailand. One of the most challenging, daunting threats to modern mankind's survival (and our sanity) is The Holidays . Now that they're over, it's time to assess the damage, see where ... |
| November 29th, 2003 A 1980's AIDS Volunteer and Activist on Angels in America Separating life from art can be impossible in some cases; Angels in America is the most painful instance I know.Now that the award-winning Broadway play has ... |
| November 23rd, 2003 In Maine with the National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped Gather forty strangers in one house and give them ten days to three weeks to learn music, dance routines, scenes, and monologues for a show open to the public.Is ... |
| November 18th, 2003 Joan of Arcadia Brings Divine Sneakiness (and Teenage Angst) to CBS We've been Touched by an Angel and even walked the Highway to Heaven. Yes, folks, divine intervention has found its way into prime time television ... |
| November 17th, 2003 Matrix Revolutions: All Action No Personality Makes Neo… a Video Game What I call the "Matrix phenomenon" is something I wanted to believe in and tried to understand.For a split second, this phenomenon allowed me to believe in ... |
| November 2nd, 2003 Peter Steinfels' - A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America Let's not talk about sex Though the clergy sex abuse scandal garners its own chapter in this nearly 400-page tome, the crisis Peter Steinfels describes is not limited to priest pedophiles, hush ... |
