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April 3rd, 2005
Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code receives a cold cut
What fascinated me about the hugely popular novel The Da Vinci Code was not whether Dan Brown's gargantuan best-seller had a shred of truth in it but rather that ...
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April 3rd, 2005
Two perspectives on how to interpret young adults' commitment to Catholicism
More and more seek a robust orthodoxy
by Colleen Carroll Campbell
Conventional wisdom among America's chattering classes has long held that the Catholic ...
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March 24th, 2005
Journeying to the third world to meet my sponsored child.
"Noticeably fuller, sexier lips in 90 seconds," read the subject line of the spam email. Interesting news, but not something I could focus on. I was leaving the next ...
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February 18th, 2005
or Saint Jude, the sock drawer and me
When I was very young, I spied an advertisement in a magazine for a statue of Saint Jude. I can't begin to imagine which magazine this might have been, ...
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January 7th, 2005
A young adult perspective on cancer
Mary Donovan-Kansora was thirty-four years old when she was diagnosed with uterine cancer. Shortly before the chemotherapy treatments began, she approached a friend from her church and asked him to pray that she be completely ...
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January 4th, 2005
An anorexic/bulimic finds nourishment and healing in her faith
Having just binged and purged, Kelly Raths remembers "literally pulling my head out of a toilet so I could go do youth group and be this vivacious person that ...
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January 2nd, 2005
A first-hand exploration of the conflict between Israel and Palestine
Editorial Note: Through Father Tom Ryan of the Paulist office for ecumenical and interfaith relations BustedHalo Editor, Bill McGarvey was asked to participate in a study mission to Israel from Jan 1-Jan 9. The purpose ...
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December 25th, 2004
The challenge of Christmas
It's my job to put together the manger scene each year in my house. I get out the animals, and the 3 Kings ...
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December 23rd, 2004
The difference between faith that is child-like and child- ish
Moving beyond the MangerIsn't he cute? That chubby little baby, his golden curls enhanced by the glowing disc behind his head. His mother and father gaze on him ...
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November 25th, 2004
The elusive perfect holiday
Turkey perfectWe strive to make them happen, "perfect" holiday celebrations, but they often elude us. We build up our expectations but are often left feeling empty. Nothing seems as good as what we try ...
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