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With virtually all of the East Side shut down this morning, it was quite a slog getting to Michael’s today. I waited behind the barricades at the corner of 55th and Fifth for about fifteen minutes until Vice President Joe Biden emerged from The Peninsula...

A statue of Blessed Teresa of Kolkata holding a child is seen in a prayer garden at Cure of Ars Church in Merrick, N.Y. On Sept. 4, Pope Francis, who has spent this year preaching about mercy, will canonize Mother Teresa, who traveled the world to deliver...

By R. Sampanthan – We are now in the process of making a new constitution and the claims that the special fore-place, the foremost place, given to Buddhism should continue are very widely heard. I do not know what the new constitution is going to state...

September 2, 2016 By Crispian Balmer VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Affectionately called the “saint of the gutters” during her lifetime, Mother Teresa of Calcutta will be made an official saint of the Roman Catholic Church on Sunday, just 19 years after...

  Introduction In part two of her Unaccustomed Earth,  Jhumpa Lahiri takes the readers through a tragic  love story of two young Indian Americans through a  trilogy of stories, viz.  “Once in a Lifetime,” “Year’s End,” and “Going Ashore.” It is my endeavour...