| January 3rd, 2007 Once sentenced to 20 years in prison for soliciting her husband's murder, a Chicago woman now helps former female inmates start over Edith Hoskins knows exactly the point in her life when she turned to drugs. From the age of eight until she was 11, she watched her stepfather beat her ... |
| December 23rd, 2006 Paulist Father Dave Dwyer, CSP will be the host and on-air commentator for this year's Midnight Mass from St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. Dwyer, who is the ... |
| December 13th, 2006 Ten Tips for finally Making the Holidays Happy The catalogs and television commercials are full of smiling families greeting each other with holiday joy- gleeful reunions full of peace and goodwill. What they don't show is the ... |
| December 11th, 2006 A young journalist's reflections on a nation of contrasts and contradictions As Cambodians visited temples and gave alms on their ancient day of the dead in September 2004, I was holding a diaperless newborn.I had been working for a newspaper ... |
| November 29th, 2006 Fr. Dave Dwyer CSP goes from website to satellite Howard Stern, Martha Stewart, Eminem and now Father Dave? Beginning on Monday December 4, Paulist Father Dave Dwyer will join Sirius satellite radio's growing roster of on-air talent when ... |
| November 28th, 2006 The Tulip & the Pope by Deborah Larsen (Vintage) 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 ... |
| November 17th, 2006 A brief guide to understanding meal blessings this Thanksgiving In uncertain times, we are invariably drawn to absolute truths that help us make sense of the world. One such immutable verity is the ... |
| November 15th, 2006 Daniel Ellsberg 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 ... |
| November 14th, 2006 Making the case for my sainthood with High School English students "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 ... |
| November 13th, 2006 Sacha Baron Cohen's hilarious new film cuts uncomfortably close to the bone 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 ... |
