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Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield marked the beginning of a historic new chapter in the city with a public investiture Friday morning at the Detroit Opera House in downtown Detroit. The investiture ...

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Following funding pressures and the NHS's growing influence on public healthcare, which has continued to modernise, many have been left wondering just how long it can survive. And that remains "the ...

BOLOGNA, Italy — This city of red-brick towers and delicately painted porticoes once boasted the most convents of any city in Italy: Nearly 100 sanctuaries sprang up in the 16th century for women ...

In late July, Theresa Wilks already has packed what she will take to a convent in Alton, IL to join the Sisters of St. Francis of the Martyr St. George. She is giving away all of her other possesions.