Saved By Sedona

Seekers find salvation in the New Age capital of America

By Anthony Chiorazzi

The Patron Saint of Spiritual Seekers

Convert, mystic, evangelist, American. Opening the cause for the sainthood of Isaac Hecker

Hammering Kids for Christ

Justin Fatica is tough and bruised, but soft-hearted, and few dispute he has a knack for reaching troubled kids

By Greg Ruehlmann

God’s Legs

Asking ancient questions in Africa

By Kimi Faxon Hemingway 

My Holy Sights

Seen and Hurd in the Holy Land

By Nathaniel Hurd

Spiritual Glutton
Searching for the “right place”

By Katherine Wessling

In The Dark

Dark, noisy and nearly forgotten, a 20-something makes a case for reviving Tenebrae

By Greg Ruehlmann 

A Different Kind of Priesthood

Holy Thursday and the washing of the feet

By Sr. Bernadette M. Reis, fsp

Mary of the Apparitions: A Mother Who Reaches Out

Catholic Women Reflect on the Mother of God

By Ginny Kubitz Moyer

My Fear of the Rabbi

A Reform Jew Explores Her Fear of Orthodoxy

By Karen E. Bender

BustedVideo

Where's God?

Episode #2 of BustedHalo's YouTube video feature

by Bill McGarvey & Marc Adams

The Gospel According to Philip Seymour Hoffman

Finding the spirit on stage and in an "unwieldy" Jesus

by James Martin, S.J.

Heaven, Hell and Heath Ledger’s Soul

An Orthodox Christian college student ponders salvation

By Nick Federinko

Will You Pray With Me?

Moving prayer beyond our own desires

By Mike Hayes

Latter Day Differences

The Mormon Church is busy growing (and challenging misconceptions)

By Anthony Chiorazzi

Thoroughly Modern Mary

Mary and Me offers contemporary women’s experience of the Virgin Mary in their lives

By Mike Hayes

Other6.com

New prayer website encourages people to look for God bubbling up beyond Sunday
By Trish Muyco-Tobin

Odyssey Catholics
Young and restless

By Greg Ruehlmann 

To Our Readers:

A Thank You… and an Appeal

by Fr. Dave Dwyer, CSP

All I Want For Solstice…

A Modern Pagan Talks about Solstice, Christmas and the Spiritual Search

by Nicole Sotelo

Bible Beater

The new documentary for the Bible tells me so re-examines the scriptural prohibition toward homosexuality

By Eileen Markey

For the Love of Saint Francis!

Making my peace with the blessing of the animals

by Mike Hayes

Cracking Open a Stained Glass Saint

Mother Teresa’s life in full

By Greg Ruehlmann

God Isn’t

My own dark night of the soul in Calcutta

by Eileen Markey

On Prayer

Our search for order in the darkness

By Karen E. Bender

Ecclesia Virtualis-Video

Catholics in the Blogosphere

filmed by Kevin Martz

An index to our column on the intersection of faith and culture

by Rocco Palmo

Essential Reading for Spiritual Seekers
BustedHalo asks:
"What books have helped you on your spiritual journey?"

Infinity Hands

Listening to my son talk about God.

by Karen E. Bender

A Letter From the Editor: Our Deafening Silence

"Do you mean to tell me that...we've experienced the grace of God mediated through a gay man?"

by Bill McGarvey

Just Sex?
Giving young adults what they truly want

By Richard G. Malloy, S.J.,Ph.D 

The Suspension of Disbelief

My boyfriend is from a fundamentalist family—what does the future hold?

by Kate Sweeney

Pure Sex, Pure Love

Advice from Dr. Christine B. Whelan

The Good, The Bad and The Catholic

Surviving your Catholic wedding

By Dr. Christine B. Whelan

Busted: Dawn Eden

The former rock journalist talks about her conversion and

The Thrill of the Chaste

byBill McGarvey

SWANS’ Song

Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women

Reviewed by Renée LaReau

Marriage and Black America

A crisis of commitment

By Fatimah H. Robinson

Overqualified for Love

Are high achieving women at a disadvantage when looking for a spouse?
by Dr. Christine B. Whelan

Why Wait?
Struggling with chastity as an adult.

by Brooke Thomas

Sex and University
"After a long weekend of bars, booze, and boys, I make it a point to attend Sunday night Mass."

Oxymoron No Longer

On being Black and Catholic in America

By Marc Adams 

On the Road to Andalusia

A pilgrimage to Flannery O’Connor's Georgia home

By Greg Ruehlmann 

Five Million and Counting

An American nun sees the Iraqi refugee crisis up close

By Trish Muyco-Tobin

Anne Frank's Tree

A fourteen-year-old girl—on tip-toe in the attic

By Michael White 

New Fiction

The Jerusalem Syndrome

By Miriam Parker

George Bush’s Redemption

Catholic Charities teams up with other organizations in trying to convince the President to redeem his administration’s policies

by Trish Muyco-Tobin

The More Things Change…

Security concerns for Obama are evidence that race is still very much an issue

By Richard G. Malloy, S.J.,Ph.D

Cigarette Silence

When will the Church comment on the evils of Big Tobacco?

By Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan

Barack's “Faith Lit”

The Obama campaign in the South is working overtime to correct the rumor that their candidate is a Muslim.
By Greg Ruehlmann

Remembering V-Day

A young nun defends The Vagina Monologues
by Sr. Mary Eve

Has His Dream Been Realized?

Looking at Obama through King's eyes

by Marc Adams

A New Yorker's First Iowa Caucus
...or how I almost committed election fraud
By Dr. Christine B. Whelan

Hawkeye View
A birdseye look at the Iowa Caucus experience

By Dr. Christine B. Whelan 

Cool, Young and Mormon?

BYU students are proud of their faith—but it doesn’t mean they’re all the same

By Anthony Chiorazzi

Hip-Hop in Palestine
DAM brings the Palestinian struggle into the world of rap
By Tara Good

Burma Through a Buddhist Lens

The monks of Myanmar move mountains through faith

By Marc Adams

Missing the Sound of Bombs

Young Iraqi refugees struggle to find peace and normalcy

by Tara Good

Sleeper Cell

The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in the Age of Terror

by Rev. Astrid Joy Storm

The Heart of the Misunderstanding

A Response to Reverend Storm

by Ron Roberson, CSP

Who, What, Where, When, Why is God?

NYC artists use a church as their gallery

by Eileen Markey

Reality Check

Islam and politics in Turkey

By Thomas Ryan, CSP

Laughing in the Upper Room

A funny thing happened in the middle of making a living 

by Greg Kandra

Biblical Dino-might

Why it would be a sin not to include dinosaurs in illustrated children’s Bibles.

by John D. Spalding

Immigrant Song

When did Amnesty become a dirty word?

by Marc Adams

10 Random Thoughts on Losing My Virginity

...leaving the road less traveled behind
By Joseph Marchelewski

A Primer on Islamism Today

How much do we really know about Islamist groups? Read this basic guide to find out.
by Ellen O'Grady

Buddha in the Barrio

How living with a gang led an agnostic to faith

By Anthony Chiorazzi

Tyler's Ride

Paulist Productions launch their first web-based series

by the Editors

Busted: Carrie Newcomer

Singer, songwriter, seeker, activist

By Bill McGarvey

Best Picture Bloviation

Think you’ve had enough Oscar analysis? Think again…
Bill McGarvey, James Martin SJ and Tim Reidy

Bloody Hell

Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood stuns & confounds
By Greg Ruehlmann

Surprised by Joy

Behar’s bad "View" on Saints
By James Martin, SJ

Heaven, Hell or Norman Mailer

Mailer's final book reimagines God, the devil, heaven, hell and our search for meaning in the world

Review by Robert Anthony Siegel

An Inconvenient Pregnancy
Juno has wit, heart and edge

By Tony Rossi

Busted: Braddigan (of Dispatch)
Mixing song, spirituality and social action

by Bill McGarvey

Bill on Bruce

BustedHalo's editor-in-chief discusses Springsteen's Magic with Tim Reidy of America magazine