Nina, a 27-year-old anesthesiology resident in New York City, met a man at a bar recently. After some flirtatious small-talk, he asked her what she did for work. ...

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 ...

The ocean was placid and calm as a group of ten of us held our breath for what was about to come. Suddenly, with awe-inspiring grace and fury, the surface ...

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 ...

Earlier this week, the Paulist Fathers —you know, the people who run this fine website—were the beneficiaries one of the more unusual product placements in recent memory when ...

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 ...

When he had risen, early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons. On the first day ...

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 ...