C.S. Lewis wrote that chastity is the most unpopular of Christian virtues. Yet apparently, we like to talk about it: Dozens of you responded to our BustedHalo survey about ...

After the death of John Paul II and the election of Pope Benedict the XVI, print and broadcast media pundits regularly bandied about phrases like "defender of church doctrine" and "watchdog ...

[SPOILER ALERT: While the ending of the new Harry Potter novel is not revealed in this review, certain plot points are...consider yourself warned.] Shortly after the first Harry Potter books came out in ...

Last Wednesday, Paul Wolfowitz, a former Bush Administration official who was one of the chief architects of the Iraq war, assumed the Presidency of the World Bank. In his ...

Hayao Miyazaki makes that rare kind of animated movie that both children and adults love. Considered one of the greatest writer-directors in Japanese cinema and one of the finest animators ...

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A little over a year and a half ago my husband and I moved into our first house. As I walked around the wintry backyard, with its tired shrubs and empty flowerbeds, I planned ...

It is with a great sense of joy and pride that I stand before you, Class of 2005 of INSERT INSTITUTION NAME HERE. Today is the day, Commencement, a beginning. In this joyous moment, I'd ...

For years my mother has been dealing with a host of medical problems. Since I was 9 years old, I can't remember a time when she wasn't sick. Often I've sat by her ...

In 1997, Ethan Hawke starred in a little-known movie about human genetic engineering called "GATTACA." The title cleverly uses only the letters G, A, T, C, which stand ...