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Today, the Baltimore Basilica – the first Cathedral in the United States (although not in the Americas, of course) will reopen after years of restoration work. The historic Baltimore Basilica, built from 1806-1821, was the first great metropolitan Cathedral constructed in America after the adoption of the Constitution. America’s first cathedral, officially known as the…

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Coming to the Vatican in the next few weeks Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams on 11/23 Greek Orthodox Patriarch Archbishop Christodoulos Archbishop Christodoulos’ Dec. 14 visit will be the first ever official visit by a Greek church leader to the Vatican, with which the eastern Orthodox church — of which the Church of Greece is a…

CNS story about Italian businesses: Perhaps it is not so unusual that the Vatican, surrounded by Italy, named a parking garage after a saint. A recent nationwide study by the Milan Chamber of Commerce showed that some 21,000 Italian companies are named after saints — 1,000 more than in 2005. The study was published on…
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