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Fatima, Portugal, Apr 19, 2017 / 10:45 am (CNA/EWTN News).- St. Peter’s Cricket Club, the Vatican’s cricket team, is traveling to Fatima April 19-22 for an interreligious tournament ahead of the 100th anniversary of the appearance of Our Lady to three shepherd children in the country.The team’s third international tour, the tournament will include Muslim, Hindu, and Jewish teams coming from Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom.It takes place just three weeks before the Pope’s pilgrimage to Fatima May 12-13 to join in the centenary celebrations.Established in 2013, St. Peter’s Cricket Club is made up of priests, deacons, and seminarians currently living and studying in Rome.Current and past members have hailed from England, India, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. The team was formed under the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture as a way to creatively engage with people from other Churches, ecclesial communions, and religions.The first day of the tr...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jaclyn Lippelmann, Catholic StandardBy WASHINGTON (CNS) -- GeorgetownUniversity and the Society of Jesus' Maryland province apologized April 18 fortheir roles in the 1838 sale of 272 enslaved individuals for the university'sbenefit.More than 100 descendantsattended a morning "Liturgy of Remembrance, Contrition and Hope" thatthe university created in partnership with descendants, the Archdiocese ofWashington and the Society of Jesus in the United States."Today the Society of Jesus, whohelped to establish Georgetown University and whose leaders enslaved andmercilessly sold your ancestors, stands before you to say that we have greatlysinned," said Jesuit Father Timothy Kesicki, president of the Jesuit Conferenceof Canada and the United States, during the liturgy. "We pray with you todaybecause we have greatly sinned and because we are profoundly sorry."The event took place the dayafter the District of Columbia marked Emancipation Day, which celebrates theemancipation o...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Family and friends of those killed in the Oklahoma City bombing placed wreaths, photos and balloons on the metal chairs that memorialize the 168 people who died in the 1995 attack....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Astronomers have found yet another planet that seems to have just the right Goldilocks combination for life: Not so hot and not so cold. It's not so far away, either....
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A Nevada crash that nearly killed a young woman has exposed a hole in the government's efforts to get dangerous Takata air bag inflators off the road: There's nothing that prevents the devices from being taken from wrecked cars and reused....
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- One man had just started a new job with the gas company and was riding in a utility truck. Another was carrying a bag of groceries after stopping at a Catholic Charities center. The third man was in the charity's parking lot....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It was huge....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The following internal memo was sent to Fox News Channel employees on Wednesday:...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Fox News Channel's parent company fired Bill O'Reilly on Wednesday following an investigation into harassment allegations, bringing a stunning end to cable television news' most popular program and one that came to define the bravado of his network over 20 years....
The Supreme Court of India has ordered four senior members of  Prime Minister Naredra Modi's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to stand trial for conspiracy in the 1992 demolition of an ancient mosque that triggered Hindu-Muslim riots that killed thousands. A Bench of Justices P.C. Ghose and Rohinton F. Nariman, exercised the Supreme Court’s extraordinary constitutional powers under Article 142, to revive the criminal conspiracy charges of the Central Bureau of Investigation against L.K. Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Uma Bharti and Kalyan Singh in the Babri Masjid demolition cases.  Singh, who was the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh in 1992, will not be tried now as he enjoys constitutional immunity as Rajasthan Governor, but can be tried only after he leaves office.The Allahabad High Court had earlier dropped conspiracy charges against the accused.  The Bench has revived CBI’s appeal against the high court and also clubbed it with...
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