"Build my children a house"February 2, 1989. Her skin was tanned and wrinkled. Her hands were large and rough. Despite her short stature, Mother Teresa managed to hush an arena of 15,000 by simply standing ...

I've never tried it, but I don't think I can pray at a rock concert or in a crowded bar. Maybe it's possible if you have good powers of ...

Sitting prominently on a shelf in my office is a picture of myself and John Paul II. Its proof of the day I met someone who has given his ...

Catholics believe in the "real presence of Christ" in the Eucharist, but as a concept I think it's short-sighted at times. Not to knock the Eucharist as something ...

At a Catholic high school for girls in New York City, I have the amazing and demanding task of teaching 16 year old girls—who believe that they are ...

Entire wars have been fought over it, British lords beheaded, Spanish mystics incarcerated, principalities set on fire, and now it travels the internet in search of friendships to destroy. It is religion. And ...

Shanksville, PA, Sept. 7, 2003—About ten miles off the Pennsylvania Turnpike (about 80 miles before you get to Pittsburgh), Shanksville is small town America incarnate. It must be the mostly unlikely place imaginable for the ...

I didn't know it would be Las Vegas—I didn't know at the time the capital of sin would give me back my sanity. Code ex-boyfriend blueI guess I couldn't know ...

It took me by surprise when my two very successful cousins, who both recently graduated from law school, said to me, "You're going to have to ...

"There I was, there I was, there I was… in the Congo ." It was the first thing ...