The most interesting part of the visit of Prince Charles and Camilla to Pope Benedict never happened The Pope never did present the royal couple with a facsimile of the letter written by English nobles to Pope Clement VII in 1530 pleading for the annulment of Henry VIII s marriage to Catherine of

I recently wrote about Lynn Nottage rsquo s important play ldquo Ruined rdquo which since that blog post has received the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for drama It has also received five nbsp Drama Desk Award nominations for outstanding play actress featured actress director and music Such criti

It was announced yesterday nbsp that Mary Ann Glendon Harvard Law professor and former U S ambassador to the Holy See has now declined to receive the Laetare Medal from Notre Dame at graduation in May out of concerns arising from the school s decision to invite President Barack Obama to speak

Cambridge MA I am sure many of you read Mark C Taylor s End the University as We Know It op-ed piece in the New York Times on April 27 It is about the need for radical reform in higher education academe including a radical refashioning of what counts as scholarly research But be sure also to

The guy I campaigned for didn rsquo t make it but we rsquo ve got a great President hellip and we rsquo ve got a lot of areas where we can work together With these words former Ambassador to the Holy See Thomas Melady during George H W Bush rsquo s presidency kicked off a panel discussion Cat

A half-century of warfare against the split infinitive the misplaced modifier the obfuscation of plain language and even the gratuitous use of a serial comma was recognized earlier this month as various media outlets celebrated the 50th anniversary of Strunk and White the venerable writing guid