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MEDELLIN, Colombia (AP) -- A chartered plane carrying a Brazilian first division soccer team crashed outside Medellin while on its way to the finals of a regional tournament, killing 76 people, Colombian officials said Tuesday. Six people initially survived, but one of them later died in a hospital....
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(Vatican Radio) The Marymount International School of Rome has been celebrating its 70th anniversary recalling the founding of the institute in 1946.The first Marymount School was founded in 1926 in New York by Mother Marie Joseph Butler, and was part of a network of schools directed by the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary (RSHM). Mother Butler envisioned an independent educational opportunity for the daughters of the Irish and Italian emerging middle classes, to ensure they would continue their education as Catholics. With this in mind, she founded the Marymount School and soon after opened Marymount colleges to educate the teachers who worked in the schools. Mother Butler had the foresight to think of broadening the girls’ education by sending them to Europe, which led to the opening of schools in London, Paris, and Rome.Ms. Sarah Gallagher, Executive Headmistress of the Marymount International School of Rome, spoke with Vatican Radio’s Hayley Susino about the s...
Sydney, Australia, Nov 29, 2016 / 12:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In Australia, the Catholic Church has established a new independent non-profit to protect children and vulnerable adults from abuse.“Catholic bishops and religious leaders in Australia are determined to do all in their power to ensure that abuse, in any form, should never again occur in the Church,” said a Nov. 22 FAQ on the new company. “The setting of consistent national standards and auditing compliance with them is a key element in this.”The creation of the non-profit company, Catholic Professional Standards Limited, was jointly announced by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and Catholic Religious Australia during the bishops’ plenary meeting with religious leaders at Mary MacKillop Place in Sydney, the Diocese of Hobart reports.The company will develop, audit, and report on professional protection standards across Catholic entities, with a special focus on areas that currently la...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a globally competitive world, American students have strides to make when it comes to math and science, where they lag behind a solid block of East Asian countries as well as Russia and Kazakhstan....
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Investigators are looking into whether a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University that injured 11 people was an act of terror by a Somali-born student who had once criticized the media for its portrayal of Muslims....
HAVANA (AP) -- Schools and government offices will be closed Tuesday for a second day of homage to Fidel Castro, with the day ending in a rally on the wide plaza where the Cuban leader delivered fiery speeches to mammoth crowds in the years after he seized power....
HAVANA (AP) -- After his band of bearded rebels won power in 1959, Fidel Castro embarked on a victory tour delivering speeches to cheering crowds stretching from the eastern Cuban city of Santiago to Havana. Starting Wednesday, his ashes will retrace that journey in a solemn procession to his final resting spot....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hundreds of thousands of young immigrants living in the country illegally willingly came out of the shadows and identified themselves to the Obama administration on the promise that they'd be safe from deportation and allowed to work....
NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald Trump's hunt for a secretary of state is veering into dramatic terrain, with the president-elect summoning Mitt Romney back for a second look as a top aide leads a public pressure campaign against the pick....
