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May 2013

May 24, 2013

Mother Dolores Hart Discovers Twitter at the Christopher Awards

More pictures from the 2013 Christopher Awards ceremony, which was held last night, will be...

May 17, 2013

“American Idol” winner Candice Glover and Other Women Who Derive Their Self-Worth from God

Candice Glover was crowned the winner of "American Idol" season 12 last night - and...

April 2013

April 24, 2013

What Are You Putting Between Yourself and God? Unmasking the Idols in Your Life

Though we modern folk believe we’re much smarter and less gullible than, for example, the...

April 22, 2013

Holy Women of the Church

The following is a text copy of the new Christopher News Note, "Holy Women of...

April 17, 2013

Grace, Gold & Glory: An Interview with Olympic Gold Medalist Gabrielle Douglas and her mom, Natalie Hawkins

One of the most impressive things about Olympic gymnast Gabrielle Douglas' memoir "Grace, Gold &...

March 2013

March 18, 2013

Companions on the Road to God Experience Doubt, Mystery and Redemption Together

So a rationalist and a mystic walk into a bar. Okay, it wasn't a bar;...

February 2013

February 21, 2013

God Told Me What to Say, and It Went Around the World: A Nun Recalls Marching with Martin Luther King Jr.

The following column was written by The Christophers' Jerry Costello: She’s been referred to as...

February 08, 2013

Advice for Singles on Valentine’s Day (or “Bitterness only makes a person happy when it comes in the form of baking chocolate.”)

If the approach of Valentine's Day finds you single and depressed, check out Monica Gabriel's...

January 2013

January 17, 2013

Praying Before Oatmeal: A Catholic Perspective on Food, Self-Image and God with Mary DeTurris Poust

Christopher Closeup Podcast - Guest: Mary DeTurris Poust (This post is part of Mary DeTurris...

January 15, 2013

A Tweeting, Facebooking Nun Shares Her Media Mission

Katie Drews at Chicago Catholic News recently profiled Sister Helena Burns from the Daughters of...

January 08, 2013

Sex, Dignity and the “Nashville” version of Tim Tebow

One thing that soap operas and country music have in common is stories that involve...

January 07, 2013

2012: A Blog Year in Review

Happy Belated New Year to Everybody! After three weeks of being largely offline, it's taking...

December 2012

December 02, 2012

One Child and One Miracle at a Time

The following column was written by The Christophers' Jerry Costello: Sister Mary Rose McGeady passed...

November 2012

November 27, 2012

What Jesus, a Country Song About Divorce and a Study on Gratitude Have in Common

What do Jesus, a country song about divorce and a research study about gratitude have...

November 24, 2012

Nuns Having Fun: Salesians Dance Gangnam Style

Salesian Sister Colleen Clair, FMA, whose online nickname is "HappyNun," posted this video on Facebook...

November 08, 2012

A Sexual Abuse Victim’s Efforts to Be a Conduit to the Light of God and the Saints

When rock journalist Dawn Eden left behind her sexually promiscuous lifestyle to embrace chastity, Christianity,...

November 01, 2012

Feminine, Faithful, Free and Bold: One Woman’s Journey Toward Love & Liberation with the Saints

“In a sense, Teresa of Avila was a party girl.” That may not be the...

August 2012

August 20, 2012

What Their Treatment of a Homeless Woman Reveals About the ER Nurses of “NY Med”

“I think we identify with people who can’t help themselves. In some really weird way,...

August 13, 2012

Why Would a 2012 Olympian Sell Her Bronze Medal?

The following is an entry from The Christophers' upcoming "Three Minutes a Day" book which...

August 08, 2012

Congratulations and Mazel Tov, Aly Raisman!

After several days of highlighting Christian Olympic athletes, today I have to praise Jewish-American gymnast,...

August 02, 2012

A Beautiful Warrior Discovers Love After Tragedy

In 2004, Eric Strauss, an ABC News producer for the network’s Primetime series, traveled to...

July 2012

July 11, 2012

Hollywood and Human Trafficking

When you think of ways that child sex trafficking could be stopped or prevented, you...

July 02, 2012

Frontline Faith Project Offers Spiritual Support to Catholics and Protestants in War Zones

When Cheri Lomonte was interviewing a woman whose son was serving in Afghanistan as a...

June 2012

June 30, 2012

Maura Byrne, Nicole Kidman, and Twitter: A Story of Initiative, Social Media, and a Celeb Who Cares

A few months ago, I interviewed Maura Byrne, a young woman who started a ministry...

June 26, 2012

This One’s for the Girls

Christopher Closeup Podcast - Guests: Kara Eschbach and Janet Sahm, Part 2 A few years...

June 19, 2012

Fresh Conversations on What It Means To Be Real Women

Christopher Closeup Podcast - Guests: Kara Eschbach and Janet Sahm When twenty-somethings Kara Eschbach and...

April 2012

April 23, 2012

Style, Sex and Substance: Part 2

Christopher Closeup Podcast - Guest: Hallie Lord, Part 2 Last week's "Christopher Closeup" podcast featured...