Thomas Ward agonized over a choice: should he cheat death by ditching his research or forge ahead and prepare to die? He decided to prepare to die. ...

In the beginning, was God. And sports was with God, and sports was God. Then, out of the muck and mire, God created man, and gave man authority to name all ...

He is a wiry bantam rooster of a man; a ball of nervous energy with brown hair and rectangular glasses sitting atop a Roman nose. From a row ...

David Allen's parents wanted him to see a psychiatrist. Why? Not because he was depressed, taking drugs or getting bad grades in college but because he wanted to convert to Christianity. Allen is one of several ...

Two years after my husband Greg and I were married, word came from his Aunt and Uncle in Florida that there was a problem with his grandmother. In one ...

Through The Gospel of Judas, one of the greatest historical discoveries in the history of humankind, the world’s eyes were opened to a revolutionary view of the ...

The fact that we know how director Paul Greeengrass' United 93 ends somehow makes the film all the more harrowing to watch. We know that the doomed September 11th flight out of Newark airport will ...

With its mix of equal parts "The Bachelor" and "Jackass" with a spiritual twist, A&E's new reality series, "God or the Girl" has people talking. The ...

Growing up Jewish in New York City, I had no idea that I was a member of a ridiculously small religious minority. That blithe unawareness had something to do ...

I was randomly surfing the web when I found your article on the Mohammed cartoons and, though it did offer insight into the Muslim thinking, I have to admit that I ...

At 11pm on February 9th my husband started with pain in his chest. At midnight he woke me up and said, "I don't think I'm ok." We drove ...

You have to hand it to the Irish. Every March 17th, they put on the party of the season. Celtic or not, everybody celebrates St. Patrick’s Day. I am ...

A quick glance at the "inspiration" section in any large bookstore is all one needs to determine that books classified as spiritual writing occupy a large tent. Joseph ...

Robert Ellsberg had some explaining to do. When his book All Saints appeared in 1997, readers celebrated its fresh take on the lives of "365 saints, prophets and witnesses for ...

On the long list of social justice causes that the Catholic Church advocates for, issues like poverty and the right to life are usually foremost in people's minds. ...

Ok, I admit it…in the Bible the men pulled off some pretty incredible feats: Moses parted the sea; Elijah called down fire from heaven to incinerate the wicked priests of Baal; ...

Who is Jesus? Who is God? Is it possible to discuss them apart from theological abstractions, as personalities with distinctly individual ways of seeing the world? And if so, ...

"Make no mistake" a priest friend of mine said to me during a recent phone call "it's a disaster." I had called to wish him a happy new year ...

"And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea, to the city of David that is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family ...

As Christmas Day draws closer and crèche scenes start to pop up in New York City, I inevitably begin to think about the Holy Family. But this Christmas, as my ...