Early bloomer My roots in activism grew quickly. I became aware of many world problems through the help of some Southeast Asian friends during my sophomore year of high school. At that time, Indonesia was fighting ...

There is a God on the streets. And a faith more genuine than the one we perceive the crazy street evangelists to be talking about. The spirituality of the homelessThe ...

War began on my thirteenth birthday, alien blue tracer fire arcing over the minarets and round curving buildings of Baghdad. I sat cross-legged on the couch with an open notebook in my lap, not studying ...

To the Editors of BustedHalo: Like most people around the world, I saw the re-election of George W. Bush to the presidency of the United States as ...

The scandal moves to California The epicenter of the Catholic priest sex abuse scandal is poised to move west to California. That's because a new state law , effective Jan. 1, 2003, ...

March is nearly upon us, as is the brink of war. Usually when I think of March I tend to think of college basketball and March Madness, also known as the NCAA's ...

Yesterday, outside the Hogar de Cristo here in Arica, Chile, my mind boggled as I talked to a homeless, alcoholic, filthy and desperate man. ...

Jesus was all about non-violence as the way to transform your enemy?s heart. Modern warfare has other ideas about what to do with your enemy's heart. As the debate around pummeling Saddam ...

I was eight years old when on Jan. 22, 1973 , the U.S. Supreme Court made abortion legal throughout the country. Growing up in a post-Roe v. Wade world, I listened to friends who had chosen ...

Are you a good Catholic? As we begin 2003, we are surrounded by war and rumors of war. What do you think of the Bush administration's ...