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A "lost" Oxford University college has been unearthed during the construction project for new student flats. The former St Mary's College was founded in 1435 but had already fallen into disrepair 100 years later. A team from Oxford Archaeology discovered a massive limestone wall foundation, butchered animal bones and decorated floor tiles. Construction firm Beard is developing 30 student flats at Brasenose College's Frewin Annexe. The ill-fated St Mary's College was to be a base for Augustinian canons studying in Oxford. A two-storey college chapel and library was built, but construction was very slow. Cardinal Thomas Wolsey tried to speed...

SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE, dedicated originally to the Mother of Christ, should now formalize in words what it's long demonstrated in shameful deeds: the place should no longer call itself "Catholic." Last year, with no apparent sense of irony, SMC paid defiantly unrepentant "Weather Underground" terrorist William Ayers to speak on "living our lives for peace and justice." A brainwashed 2003 SMC alumnus then applauded the Ayers appearance in a Times guest column, claiming "the role of violence in the pursuit of political goals, the integration of radical agents into mainstream political operations, what constitutes a 'terrorist' "... " were merely...

Students at St. Mary's College in Orchard Lake, Michigan, warmly welcomed Our Lady of Fatima's statue to their campus on November 23. Escorted by members of TFP Student Action, this beautiful statue made a profound impression on those who saw her. It is one of many pilgrim statues traveling the country thanks to the America Needs Fatima campaign, a project of the American TFP that promotes devotion to Mary reaching hundreds of thousands every year. "The ambience in the conference room changed as soon as Our Lady arrived. I never saw anything like it," remarked student Benjamin Beckett, who helped...