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LAST MONTH, on December 10, the award ceremony for the prestigious Nobel Prizes was held. The awards are bestowed by a special commission on those who have made outstanding contributions in Physics,...

December 20 2011 | by

THE DOOM and gloom of the economic recession has spread its dark shadows over the whole planet and, though the worst affected are the poorest and weakest, even those better off are deeply concerned....

November 24 2011 | by

A FEW days ago I received an unexpected phone call from London informing me that Erminio, a close friend of mine, had suddenly passed away.

Erminio was born in Milan, Italy but, as a young...

October 20 2011 | by

IF I WERE an extraordinary person gifted with supernatural powers, instead of being an ordinary friar working as editor of this magazine I would go out of my way to bring back to life a very special...

September 23 2011 | by

THE ATTACK launched on 9/11 by Al-Qaeda against the United States and the free world was unprecedented in terms of savagery and brutality. The passenger planes plunging into the Twin Towers (one of...

July 26 2011 | by

ON MARCH 2, 2011, Clement Shahbaz Bhatti, a Pakistani government official, was pulled out of his car and gunned down by Islamic fundamentalists. Bhatti, a Catholic, was the minister for religious...

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