Whether it's Pilates or spinning, marathoning or extreme kayaking, Americans love their exercise. No doubt the number of new gym memberships and fitness-related New Year's resolutions will spike in a couple ...

Perhaps it is fitting that it took someone whose job it is to satirize sacred cows and poke fun at hypocrites to write one of the most powerful spiritual ...

I was just walking my dog on a peaceful Sunday afternoon. From beyond a grassy knoll of lavender and roses, someone beckoned me from a second floor apartment balcony. I ...

I couldn't help it. "Good riddance," I mumbled, as the news came through that Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President of the United States, had died on Saturday, June 5, ...

Although the horrors of slavery, Jim Crow laws and segregated facilities may no longer exist in the United States, there are other, less visible and less formalized aspects of racial prejudice that persist--even, unfortunately, within ...

I'm a big fan of peace and harmony. Because of this, I generally don't struggle much when it comes to forgiving others. Subconsciously, it feels far better than carrying an unpleasant conflict around in my ...

To an older generation of Roman Catholics, the mention of traditional devotions like the eucharistic adoration and liturgy of the hours might elicit either chilling memories of ...

Smarty Jones, your 2004 Kentucky Derby champion, is God's Horse. Seabiscuit for the new milleniumYou see a horse like that and a story like this maybe once in a lifetime. Twice, if you've seen Seabiscuit. Smarty came ...

"Why is there a monkey on the tabernacle?" my friend asked herself as she walked into church one Sunday morning. Apparently, a religious education teacher was planning a discussion on Noah's Ark for the second grade ...

Last month, I freed my rosary from hiding. We've had a tumultuous relationship. I never used the thing on my own, dragging it out mainly for various parochial school events. My rosary was a gift. ...