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Philadelphia Archdiocese To Hold Vigil To Make ‘Reparations’ For Clergy Sex Abuse

Matthew McDonald

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia invites all Catholics to hold vigil for seven hours Friday night in an act of contrition, repentance, and to make "reparations."  The vigil will be held at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in the city. According to a flyer available online, Catholics are invited to "an evening of prayer before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament to ask for His mercy upon His Church in this moment of profound crisis."

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Trinity College Gets A $12.3 Million Gift … 68 Years After Alumnus’s Death

Matthew McDonald

It might not be a perfect example of "giving back," but the gift bequeathed to Trinity College by alumnus Charles Guilford Woodward 120 years after his graduation from the Hartford school is at least a type of "paying it forward." Really forward.

Woodward's gift of $12.8 million, received by the liberal arts college on Thursday, is the remainder of a trust established after his death in 1958. That trust was created to provide for his niece and her children; when the last of those children died recently, the leftover funds, per the Woodward's instructions, were to go to the college.

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