Author and Columbia University professor Robert Thurman talks about what Buddhism offers American culture that psychology cannot - a way to achieve an emotionally balanced life that acknowledges the existence of the soul and our emotional connections to one another.

Would Christian theology be rocked to the core if science someday found a distant orb teeming with little green men, women or other intelligent forms of alien life? Would the church send missionaries to spread the Gospel to aliens? Could aliens even be baptized? Or would they have had their own version of Jesus and have already experienced his universal or galactic plan of salvation? The Catholic News Service reports.