nbsp Scientists all over the world are celebrating the CERN research center rsquo s discovery of the elusive subatomic Higgs Boson particle nbsp For fifty years physicists have ldquo believed in the particle without seeing it rdquo NY Times July 5 and ldquo dedicated their lives and fortu

A recent exchange of warm regards between John Gehring at Faith in Public Life and the U S C C B rsquo s media office raised some eyebrows Gehring had penned a June background memo for media aimed at countering some of the inevitably anti-Obama subtext of the U S C C B rsquo sFortnight for Freedo

Just posted online Patrick Fleming a psychotherapist and co-author of Shattered Soul Five Pathways to Healing the Spirit after Abuse and Trauma nbsp WordStream Publishing 2011 and Broken Trust Stories of Pain Hope and Healing from Clerical Abuse Survivors and Abusers writes on why it impera

Among those most concerned about the repeal of the Don rsquo t Ask Don rsquo t Tell law that barred gay men and women from serving openly in the military were some military chaplains who were afraid that their religious liberty would be threatened Now with several months of the repeal in effect

I woke up Sunday morning July 1 to the voice of National Public Radio rsquo s Krista Tippet posing gentle questions to philosopher Jacob Needleman on his book American Soul Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders The segment entitled ldquo The Inward Work of Democracy rdquo explained how ever

nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp Poor ldquo Doubting Thomas rdquo nbsp the protagonist with Jesus of course of today s Gospel nbsp St Thomas the Apostle doubts once and gets saddled with that unfortunate moniker for all