There's an old Yiddish saying: "If you want to hear God laugh, just tell Him your plans." As far as my own life's concerned, these days, ...

After spending more than four decades covering world events for NBC news— including a stint in Moscow between 1989-1994 where he reported on the end of the ...

Deepak Chopra is one of the world's greatest leaders in the field of mind, body and medicine. The author of more than 50 books, Chopra is regarded as the pre-eminent authority ...

Amid news of the Rev. Jerry Falwell's death earlier this week, the coverage was predictable. Conservatives who benefited from the pioneering televangelist's forays into politics praised his stances and ...

The Rev. Jerry Falwell—founder of the Moral Majority and the leader of the religious right in the '80s—died Tuesday after he was discovered unconscious in his office. We ...

Each year hundreds of college students visit developing countries to volunteer on humanitarian projects, learn about another culture and foster solidarity with people whose poverty and trauma are ...

For most of my adult life, I was what you might call, a casual evolutionist. You know, the type of person who could handle your run-of-the-mill, cocktail-party ...

As a girl in Catholic school, Khadijah Rivera dreamed of becoming a nun despite the fact she feared Jesus. She was frightened by her church's bloodied statue of ...

When Sr. Luma Khudher, O.P. speaks of her life and her countrymen in Iraq, she does not discuss politics, ideologies or even Saddam Hussein. Instead, the 30-year-old Dominican nun ...

Hang around the Christian music festival circuit for very long, and you'll invariably hear about mewithoutYou's Aaron Weiss. Everyone has a story. Some have seen him walking around ...

Ever since the Columbine high school massacre in 1999 and the Washington, DC Beltway sniper attacks of 2002, "lockdown" is a word that's been lifted out of the penitentiary ...

Despite my apparently wholesome life, I have a deep, dark secret, one so shameful that I must shroud my name in the mists of a pseudonym. I'm embarrassed to ...

When faced with a horrible tragedy like the one that occured at Virginia Tech, we are immediately tempted to want to analyze and search for answers ...

He's a born again Christian who made his name in the 1970s with a song about the devil. He's also a "Long Haired Country Boy" who is fiercely ...

What is it about Grey's Anatomy that transformed it from a sleeper, mid-season replacement show into a primetime phenomenon? Of course some will point to the well-written scripts or ...

Fr. Dave Dwyer and Mike Hayes' entrance into the world of podcasting in December 2005 marked a new chapter in the Paulist Fathers' great tradition of preaching "old ...

The door to WFAN's studio opened wide catching my eye and as I looked up I was greeted with the words "What the f*** are you looking at?" from ...

Usually when St. Peter's denial of Jesus is recounted every Holy Week I find myself feeling somewhat superior. After all, Peter refuses to admit that he even ...

So look, if the divine made flesh really did roll into town to adulating crowds only to be betrayed, tortured, killed and then, holy god, rise from the ...

At the beginning of March, Philip Groning's film Into Great Silence—a two-hour and forty-minute meditation on life in the Grande Chartreuse Carthusian monastery in southeastern France—opened ...