In high school my best friend, Cathy, who went to an all-girl's Catholic school kept telling me, "The nuns say I have a calling." We used to crack ...

At the time, Rice's much-anticipated second album was still in production. Ironically, last week, while spending time with high priests of a different sort, Rice's new album, 9, was ...

In uncertain times, we are invariably drawn to absolute truths that help us make sense of the world. One such immutable verity is the ...

In the wake of the midterm elections that created such a seismic shift in the American political landscape it is easy to forget that, not long ago, the entire ...

Most of us can identify certain teachers or mentors who have had a profound impact on our lives. The same can be said for particular books that have shaped ...

"You can't be a saint," one of my students told me, matter-of-factly. I was a bit troubled by this, as I had just told my class at an all-girls Catholic ...

As the many diehard fans of British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen had hoped, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan includes sixty minutes of ...

I don't often show it, but I'm a bit of a political animal. In college, I majored in political science with a primary concentration in American politics alongside an independent ...

I was a Catholic in a Protestant country. I was a gay boy in the Catholic church. I'm now an immigrant English person who came and made his life ...

I've been really busy recently. I've been dashing into church 10 minutes late because I had to send "just one more email." During Mass, I've been thinking about work rather than paying attention to the ...