nbsp Cambridge MA Last night I was reading the International Herald Tribune how nostalgic on a flight back from Germany University of Paderborn to Boston Having missed out of much of the news during my busy week in Paderborn and before that in the ldquo other rdquo Cambridge UK for a w

Update The Vatican has announced the canonization date April 27 2014 Today 39 s announcement by Pope Francis of the canonization of Blessed John Paul II was not a surprise From the time of his death in 2005 when crowds shouted quot Santo Subito quot in St Peter 39 s Square to Pope Benedi

It appears that releasing his first encyclical today wasn 39 t enough for Pope Francis According to a Vatican Radio news report Federico Lombardi SJ the Vatican spokesperson and director of the Holy See Press Office called journalists back for a suprise second press conference after the earlie

This week two giants of the publishing world joined forces Penguin a subsidiary of Pearson Group has merged with Random House to form what Markus Dohle the chief executive officer of the newly minted Penguin Random House has described as the ldquo first truly global trade book publishing compa

Going into the 4th of July weekend I look at the political turmoil taking place in Egypt and feel fortunate to have been born in a country that had its revolution 200 plus years ago and was led by men of such singular ability George Washington Benjamin Franklin John Adams Thomas Jefferson Jame

Philosophers keep exploring the empty space left by the eclipse of religion in the West at least in the academic company they keep In his Religon for Atheists 2012 Alain de Boton perceptively described the consolations of religion and going further he suggested how atheists might ldquo despoil