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Vatican City, Mar 23, 2017 / 02:22 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- On Thursday a Vatican event on the prevention of child abuse narrowed in on the importance of education in schools and parishes in the safeguarding of children – not only for teachers, but for parents and children – and on the Church's role.Led by Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston, head of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, he told CNA at the March 23 event that Catholic schools are, of course, a very important part of the Church’s and Commission's ministry.There are “60 million children in our care in Catholic schools and so this kind of a conference is extremely important for the ministry of the Church,” O'Malley said. “And we were very gratified that so many cardinals made time to be a part of this.”The seminar was attended by five different cardinals in addition to O'Malley, including Cardinal João Braz de Aviz, head of the Congregat...
Glasgow, Scotland, Mar 23, 2017 / 02:31 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Four centuries after the martyrdom of St. John Ogilvie, Catholics in Scotland have launched a campaign to mark the place in Glasgow’s city center where he was executed for preaching the Catholic faith.The Order of the Knights of St. Columba, a U.K.-based Catholic fraternal organization, is backing the effort, the Scottish Catholic Observer reports.“There should be something,” said the order’s Supreme Knight Charlie McCluskey. “He’s the only Scottish martyr and there’s not even a plaque. Whether you are Catholic, Protestant, whatever, this was an historic event in the history of the city that should be marked.”John Ogilvie was born in 1579 to a family of Scottish nobles in  Banffshire. Raised a Calvinist, he converted to Catholicism in 1596 while at Louvain, Belgium, after being educated at Catholic institutions. He later joined the Society of Jesus and was ordained a pri...
Baltimore, Md., Mar 23, 2017 / 05:10 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Cardinal William Henry Keeler, who was Archbishop of Baltimore from 1989 to 2007, has died at the age of 86, archdiocesan officials say.He died early in the morning of March 23 at St. Martin's Home for the Aged in Catonsville, Maryland, a home administered by the Little Sisters of the Poor.The cardinal's funeral Mass will be held March 28 at Baltimore's Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, after which his body will be interred in the basement crypt at the city's Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore said in a statement that getting to know Cardinal Keeler was one of “the great blessings in my life.”Archbishop Lori added that after he was appointed Archbishop of Baltimore in 2012 “I became more aware than ever of his tremendous ministry in the City of Baltimore and in the nine Maryland counties that comprise the Archdiocese...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Toby Melville, ReutersBy LONDON (CNS) -- Cardinal VincentNichols of Westminster, whose cathedral is just a short walk from the scene ofthe London terrorist attack, called for prayers for the dead and wounded."Yesterday's attacks inWestminster have shocked us all," he said in a March 23 statement. "Thekind of violence we have seen all too often in other places has again broughthorror and killing to this city."The five fatalities includedAysha Frade, a 43-year-old Catholic mother mowed down by a car driven by the assailant as he sped over Westminster Bridge toward the BritishParliament. Frade was on her way to pick up her children from school when shewas killed.After crashing the vehicle intorailings, the British-born Muslim ran into New Palace Yard, near Parliament,where he fatally stabbed a police officer before he was killed by police. About40 people were injured in the attack."Pray for Aysha Frade,killed by the car on Westminster Bridge," Cardinal Nichols said, ad...
By Junno Arocho EstevesROME (CNS)-- While documentation regarding an alleged miracle attributed to theintercession of Blessed Oscar Romero is being studied at the Vatican, there isno date scheduled for his canonization, the archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador, said. "Imust say, in all sincerity, that there is no date. And we understand it wellbecause it involves a process. Blessed Romero's cause is at a decisive phasethat is necessary for his canonization," Archbishop Jose Luis Escobar Alassaid March 23 during a memorial Mass for Blessed Romero in Rome. ArchbishopEscobar, along with the other bishops of El Salvador were making their "ad limina" visits to Rome and theVatican and anticipatedthe 37th anniversary of Blessed Romero's death with Mass at Rome's Basilica ofSanta Maria in Trastevere. BlessedRomero, the archbishop of San Salvador, was assassinated in 1980 whilecelebrating Mass in the chapel of a local hospital one day after calling on thegovernment to end its violation o...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The Latest on the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament (all times Eastern):...
NEW YORK (AP) -- One was a neighborly black man who lived in a rooming house in New York's Garment District, liked to collect autographs outside Broadway's theaters, struck up a Twitter friendship with a Hollywood actress and took photos of himself with Oprah Winfrey and Beyonce....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The deepening U.S. military involvement against Islamic State militants in northern Syria indicates the Pentagon will likely send even more troops in coming weeks. Their mission won't be to fight on the front lines but to bolster Syrian Arab and Kurdish forces in a coming battle for the key city of Raqqa....
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) -- A Maryland high school has been thrust into the national immigration debate after a 14-year-old student said she was raped in a bathroom there by two classmates, including one who authorities said came to the U.S. illegally from Central America....
LONDON (AP) -- Authorities on Thursday identified a 52-year-old Briton as the man who mowed down pedestrians and stabbed a policeman to death outside Parliament in London, saying he had a long criminal record and once was investigated for extremism - but was not currently on a terrorism watch list....
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