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A New York Public Library branch said a book was returned this week after being checked out in 1958.
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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Monday the canonization of the first North American Indian saint this fall would be "a deep honor for our country."
St. Francis Xavier Church parishioners in Albuquerque will get to honor Our Lady of Guadalupe the old fashioned way, city officials say.
Regular participants in an Our Lady of Guadalupe festival in Albuquerque say city officials have banned all homemade food from the annual event.
Officials at a Nova Scotia university resumed extra-curricular activities Wednesday following a Norwalk virus outbreak that sickened at least 25 students.
Canadian-led geologists have found continents break along pre-existing lines of weakness created when land chunks attach to a larger continent.
Church history is full of ironic twist and turns, to wit the meandering mission tale of St. Francis Xavier, who died at age 46 off the coast of China 450 years ago this Tuesday. Some might consider much of his Far Eastern ministry a failure, considering
At Xavier High School in Manhattan Monday athletes loaded into a half dozen yellow buses to travel to afternoon team practices throughout the city. On Wednesday
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Flags-In Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery
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Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Roskos with the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, "The Old Guard," participates in the annual Flags-In ceremony, May 23, 2013, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Soldiers place American flags in front of more than 260,000 gravestones in the cemetery in honor of Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietsch