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An interfaith prayer service is scheduled tonight for the victims of Wednesday’s shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. The Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis will hold an ...

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Once suppressed under communist rule, the feast of St. Stephen is now the country’s defining civic and religious holiday. An image of St. Stephen of Hungary appears with the Hungarian Parliament ...

St. Joseph Calasanz (in older works, St. Joseph Calasanctius) was a Spanish priest, born in 1556, who founded the Piarist order. He was well educated in the classical fashion, obtaining a doctorate in ...