November 2, 2026

As a boy, one of my favorite times in school was when we’d get a new Scholastic News book “catalog.” I would pore over the pages, picking out which books I wanted and filling out the order sheet. And as soon as I got them, I was lying…
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From the well-meaning attempt to canonize a noble pup to a streamlined administrative process reserved to the Vatican, the practice of declaring saint has come a long way.Around the 1250s a French Dominican priest heard from local women…
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