"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. ...

A Grad Student's Spiritual Adventure in Brusselsby Jessica M. AlampayLeaving homeSt. Mark's University Parish in Santa Barbara was like my second ...

You may not envision being called into relationship with God through a classified ad. Nevertheless, perhaps God is calling you to live the vocation of singlehood—that is, the vocation of celibacy, of intimate union with the ...

There's been yet another casualty in the culture wars that have raged in the United States over the past decade. On August 18, 2004, Deal Hudson, publisher of the ...

The scandal of Catholic clergy sexual abuse of children is, after two years, still on the front pages of the nation's papers. But playwright Michael Murphy, director David Zak, ...

Fr. Jim Martin's recent article recounting the worst homilies ever heard sent an all-too-familiar chill through my born and bred Catholic bones. Unfortunately, I've also sat in the pews many times thinking that ...

With a victory in the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, June 5, 2004, Smarty Jones will have captured horseracing's most elusive prize—the Triple Crown. No horse has done it since ...

"All of us had suffered greatly to get to this moment�I had eaten little and slept not at all since leaving Camp 2, two days earlier. Every time I coughed, the pain from my torn ...

Calling it a "vacation" might be a bit of a stretch, but through his correspondence with friends back in the United States, 29-year-old, Minneapolis native Paul Lickteig offers up ...