William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, founded the first college outside a university, namely Winchester College, in 1379, for seventy boys who were to be educated in “grammar”, i.e. literature. Gram-mar colleges had indeed existed before, in connection with universities and cathedrals; ...
The case against Fr. Rupnik was reopened in February 2024 when Gloria Branciani and Mirjam Kovac went public with their stories. Their allegations caused outrage throughout the Catholic world and a call to have Church authorities remove Rupnik’s art from churches, cathedrals, and pilgrimage shrine...
and in 1854 she was sent to the new Academy of Notre Dame in Roxbury (now part of Boston),Massachusetts, as mistress of boarders. In 1860 she became the first American superior in the Belgian-based order when she took charge of the academy in Philadelphia. In addition to the regular scho...