Sidney Callahan

nbsp Sixty seven years ago on August 6th the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and killed at least 166 000 people nbsp On August 9 a second nuclear bomb was deployed on Nagasaki and destroyed 80 000 more nbsp At this news I as a 12 year old patriotic daughter in a military fam

The Ethics of Bystanders to Divorce nbsp nbsp A publication of the Institute for American Values by M Christian Green discusses ldquo The Ethics of Bystanders to Divorce rdquo Propositions 8 July 2012 Americanvalues org nbsp She claims that divorce affects bystanders as well as the divor

ldquo Weep with those who weep rdquo says St Paul in Romans 12 nbsp Not only in Aurora Colorado is this command followed nbsp Human beings have evolved to be intuitively affected by the emotions of others nbsp Mysterious nbsp ldquo mirror neurons rdquo in the brain instantly provide empathe

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

Thank God for Jimmy Carter In today rsquo s N Y Times he catalogues and warns against America rsquo s current violations of basic human rights nbsp He lists the growing number of atrocious U S abuses against the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the rule of law Carter voices the i

nbsp nbsp Theologian Denis Edwards in his inspiring book Breath of Life A Theology of the Creator Spirit retrieves and develops the truth nbsp of God rsquo s love for creation nbsp He quotes St Basil rsquo s insights into the symphony of creation in which God the Artist embraces and deligh

In the penultimate period of life you nbsp get to nbsp embark on spiritual paths not taken in hectic youth One way I rsquo ve done this is to reread with a remedial eye Elizabeth Johnson rsquo s great book Quest for the Living God Here you can encounter the Gospel in all its fullness If you want

Dear Pope Benedict I rsquo ve just read your 1989 paper reprinted in Communio in the review rsquo s featured ldquo Retrieving the Tradition rdquo In ldquo Difficulties Confronting the Faith in Europe Today rdquo you explain your future papacy rsquo s resistance to change on the ldquo interli

Few psychiatrists apologize or have their regrets appear on the front page of the New York Times– above the fold no less nbsp But Dr Robert Spitzer is rightly described as a giant of modern psychiatry nbsp He has made news many times by taking controversial stands against prevailing opinions

nbsp nbsp Few psychiatrists apologize or have their regrets appear on the front page of the New York Times– above the fold no less nbsp But Dr Robert Spitzer is rightly described as a giant of modern psychiatry nbsp He has made news many times by taking controversial stands against prevai