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Washington D.C., Sep 6, 2016 / 11:51 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Nearly 200 years after hosting a slave sale on campus in order to pay off school debt, Georgetown University has announced its intention of making amends to the descendants of those impacted by the sale, as well as to the broader community.Along with the Archdiocese of Washington and the Society of Jesus in the United States, Georgetown will offer a Mass of Reconciliation for the school’s actions.The university will also give descendants of the slave sale preferential consideration, treating them with the same consideration as the children of faculty, staff and alumni.Furthermore, the school will create a memorial to the people sold in the sale. It will rename two residence halls – originally named for the Jesuit priests who orchestrated the sale – after Isaac Hawkins, the first man sold in the 1838 sale, and Anne Marie Becraft, a local African American free woman from Washington D.C. who worked to found a s...
Scottsdale, Ariz., Sep 6, 2016 / 01:25 pm (CNA).- Parents are outraged after religious pranks at a football game in Arizona included vandalism of a statue of Mary and a dancing Jesus on the football field. A white statue of the Virgin Mary sits on a lit pillar at the entrance of Notre Dame Prep Catholic high school in Scottsdale, Arizona, greeting all who enter the grounds.Last week, ahead of a Friday night football game with rivals Desert Mountain, vandals placed a mask of Hillary Clinton over Mary’s face, an attached a sex toy lower down on the statue."It's beyond offensive. There's nothing worse than to desecrate an image of [Mary]," parent Lisa Gregory told a local CBS affiliate. "It's probably high school hijinx, but [the vandal] needs to understand that it was bigotry and intolerance. He probably doesn't realize that," she added.The Hillary mask and sex toy were quickly removed, replaced by a vase of flowers at the base of ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/John Riley, EPABy Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The last three months of the Year ofMercy include jubilee celebrations for the imprisoned and for homeless people. Releasing a schedule of liturgical celebrations over whichPope Francis will preside, the Vatican included Holy Year Masses for prisonersNov. 6 and for the homeless Nov. 13. The schedule, released at the Vatican Sept. 6, also mentionshis planned trips to Georgia and Azerbaijan Sept. 30-Oct. 2, and to Sweden Oct.31-Nov. 1 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. The pope also will preside over Mass with canonizations inSt. Peter's Square Oct. 16, World Mission Sunday. The pope will declare six menand one woman saints, including the Argentine "gaucho priest," Blessed Jose Gabriel del Rosario Brochero, and Blessed Jose Sanchez del Rio,a 14-year-old Mexican boy martyred for refusing to renounce his faith duringthe Cristero War of the1920s.Also on the calendar:-- Sept. 25:...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Kids may get more of a sting from flu vaccination this fall: Doctors are gearing up to give shots only, because U.S. health officials say the easy-to-use nasal spray version of the vaccine isn't working as well as a jab....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- The Latest on the abduction and killing of Jacob Wetterling (all times local):...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Lawmakers returning to Washington after a seven-week break picked up right where they left off - feuding about legislation to battle the mosquito-borne Zika virus and deadlocked over the defense budget....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A Minnesota man confessed Tuesday to abducting and killing 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling nearly 27 years ago, recounting a crime that long haunted the state with details that included Jacob asking right after he was taken: "What did I do wrong?"...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Prosecutors said Tuesday that they want 13 other women who said they were intoxicated when Bill Cosby assaulted them to testify at his upcoming felony sex assault trial....
BEIRUT (AP) -- Expelling the Islamic State group from the last territory it controlled along the Syrian-Turkish border has effectively cut the militants' supply lines from the outside world. That could affect their ability to protect their last bastions - the cities of Raqqa in Syria and Mosul in Iraq....
(Vatican Radio) Archbishop Eamon Martin has invited Irish believers to share the names and work of individuals who put the corporal and spiritual works of mercy into practice in their daily lives so they can be remembered in a special #BeMercy Mass of Thanksgiving he is scheduled to celebrate on 24 September.Eamon Martin, who is the Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, issued his call on Monday evening at a Mass of Thanksgiving for the canonisation of Saint Teresa of Calcutta.In his homily Archbishop Eamon said “The canonisation of Saint Teresa of Calcutta challenges us all to #BeMercy and also to give thanks for those who live the works of mercy as she did. In the coming three weeks I invite you to pray with me in thanksgiving for people you know who put the corporal and spiritual works of mercy into practice in their daily lives”.He pointed out it may be someone very close like a relative or carer or neighbour who quietly cares for...
