Headlines related to this story have been blipping across my news searches for a week now, and I never bothered to click on them until today. It’s actually an interesting story which raises a lot of questions regarding restoration of historic buildings What to do with the Baltimore Basilica’s windows? Here’s the deal: There is…

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Or, our monk, the mayor: Monk becomes mayor of Florida town From his small-town roots in rural Ohio, the Saint Leo Abbey monk found in St. Leo a town sharing so many similarities to his home, that he embraced it as his life’s destination. Last week, the town embraced him back when commissioners unanimously named…

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