I think that sports teams are scrambling to get players to treat women with respect. Don’t objectify them. Don’t see them as sex objects for...

Ray Rice, formerly on the Ravens active roster, is only the last of a long list of bad boys. Tiger Woods is perhaps the most...

Marriage is disappearing. More than 40 percent of new mothers are unmarried.” Sybil Sawhill, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, wrote that startling comment...

The following is a continuation of Father Ryan’s Sept. 16 post. CSID believes that failed policies in supporting the democratic aspirations of the Syrian people...

With last night’s conclusion of Ken Burns’ 7-night TV series, The Roosevelts, the following is a Paulist footnote on history. Paulist Father Alexander P. Doyle...

The following is a homily for the Scripture readings for Sunday, Sept. 21. “Oh, no you don’t.” These four words swarm into our minds when...

Around the front end of my mid-20s, I started struggling with time and its tendency to move forward. It was around then that I realized...

The recent 9/11 anniversary of the 2001 attacks by al Qaeda on the Twin Towers in Manhattan and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., also brought...

Today the Church joyfully celebrates the great Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Not surprisingly, today’s celebration originated in Jerusalem itself. After the...

The following is a homily for the Scripture readings for Sunday, Sept. 14, the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross. Ever since the start...

Religion can be a medication for bad feelings. I have found it to be a wonderful medication, but it took me a while to figure...

The following is a homily based on the Scripture readings for Sunday, Sept. 7.   “We will never forget.” I saw these words painted on...