-- The Illinois Commission for Handicapped Children wishes to commend the recent announcement by the Catholic charities of the archdiocese of Chicago and DePaul University of the establishment of the Institute for Special Education at the university for the training of teachers for physically handicapped and mentally retarded children.

He was the first German noble to support Luther's ideas and in 1544 founded the University of Königsberg ( the so called Albertina ) as a rival to the Roman Catholic Cracow Academy ; it was only the second Lutheran university in the German states, after Marburg.

* 1914 – World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army.

* 1611 – Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the largest Catholic university in the world.

There are also two religious university campuses in Canberra: Signadou is a campus of the Australian Catholic University and St Mark's Theological College is a campus of Charles Sturt University.

* 1887 – On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of The Catholic University of America.

* Moses Coady, Roman Catholic priest, helped found the Co-operative Antigonish Movement at St. Francis Xavier University

* James " Father Jimmy " Tompkins, Roman Catholic priest, helped found the Co-operative Antigonish Movement at St. Francis Xavier University

Online at the Catholic University of Louvain.

He earned his master's degree in theater from The Catholic University of America ( CUA ) in Washington, D. C., where he met his first wife, actress Susan Sarandon ; they divorced in 1979.

* Economics by the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan ( 1932 ),

Washington: Catholic University of America Press

* 1425 – The Catholic University of Leuven is founded.

* Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines

Dollfuss, who was raised as a devout Roman Catholic, was shortly in seminary before deciding to study law at the University of Vienna and then economics at the University of Berlin.

Cardinals also serve as advisors to the pope and hold positions of authority within the structure of the Catholic Church.

The government of the See, and therefore of the Catholic Church, then falls to the College of Cardinals.

For example, the broad, top-level overview of the general organization of the Catholic Church consists of the Pope, then the Cardinals, then the Archbishops, and so on.

Modern examples include the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia and the pope of the Roman Catholic Church, who serves as Sovereign of the Vatican City State and is elected to a life term by the College of Cardinals.

Though his absence from the 1958 conclave did not make him ineligible – under Canon Law any Catholic male may be elected – the College of Cardinals usually chose the new Pope from among themselves.

* Papal conclave, a meeting of the College of Cardinals to elect the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church

* The Ottaviani Intervention, a study written by Cardinals Alfredo Ottaviani and Antonio Bacci to Pope Paul VI concerning changes to the Catholic Mass

This relationship with the Catholic Church made it possible for John to name whomever he wanted to important religious positions in Portugal: his brothers Henry and Afonso were made Cardinals, and his natural son Duarte was made Archbishop of Braga.

In the Roman Catholic Church maces used to be carried before Popes and Cardinals.

The Eastern Catholic Churches are represented in the Holy See and the Roman Curia through the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, which " is made up of a Cardinal Prefect ( who directs and represents it with the help of a Secretary ) and 27 Cardinals, one Archbishop and 4 Bishops, designated by the Pope ad quiquennium.

The seven suburbicarian dioceses are Roman Catholic dioceses located in the vicinity of Rome, whose ( titular ) bishops form the highest-ranking order of Cardinals, the Cardinal Bishops.

Since the 1870s one or other of the Catholic archbishops of Armagh and Dublin has been a member of the College of Cardinals.

The Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals ( Latin: Decanus Sacri Collegii ) is the president of the College of Cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church, and as such always holds the rank of Cardinal Bishop.

Prominent examples of senior members of the church hierarchy who advised monarchs were Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in England, and Cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin in France ; prominent, devoutly Catholic laymen like such as Sir Thomas More also served as senior advisors to monarchs.

The College of Cardinals is the body of all cardinals of the Catholic Church.

Most of the Cardinals are from the Latin Church, those who are from the Eastern Catholic Churches have their church explicitly indicated.

The consistory is a formal meeting of the Sacred College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church, except when convened to elect a new pope ( in which case the meeting is called a conclave, and special rules of membership, procedure, and secrecy apply ).

On December 25, 1992, aged 53, he was appointed the archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tiranë-Durrës and ordained on April 25, 1993 by Pope John Paul II and Cardinals Camillo Ruini and Jozef Tomko, along with three other bishops ( Zef Simoni, Frano Illia and Robert Ashta ) during the Pope's pastoral visit to Albania.

The International Olympic Committee instituted a mandatory retirement age in 1965, and Pope Paul VI removed the right of Roman Catholic Cardinals to vote for a new Pope once they reached the age of 80 ( which was to limit the number of Cardinals that would vote for the new Pope, due to the proliferation of Cardinals that was occurring at the time and is continuing to occur.

Other examples include the Prime Minister of many parliamentary regimes, the President of the European Commission, the Chief Justice of the United States, and some religious figures, such as the Dean of the College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church, or the Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Licking County has long been a hotbed for high school sports due to the many high school athletic programs in the county, including Granville High School, Heath High School, Johnstown-Monroe High School, Lakewood High School, Licking Valley High School, Licking Heights High School, Newark Catholic High School, Newark High School, Northridge High School, Utica High School, and Watkins Memorial High School.

Both Covington Catholic and Notre Dame are known for their strong academic programs as well as athletic success.

The school is led by Principal Barry Donnelly, Vice-Principal John Vreeland and Dean of Admissions Michael Doherty with athletic director Anthony Karcich and operates under the supervision of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.

Bluffton High School sports participate in the Northwest Conference, an athletic body sanctioned by the Ohio High School Athletic Association ( OHSAA ) which includes the Ada Bulldogs, Allen East Mustangs, Bluffton Pirates, Columbus Grove Bulldogs, Convoy Crestview Knights, Delphos Jefferson Wildcats, Lima Central Catholic T-Birds, Lincolnview Lancers, Paulding Panthers, and Spencerville Bearcats.

St. Mary Catholic High School, with around 600 students, also had athletic success with their girls basketball programs, winning the all Ontarios, back to back, in the late 90s.

While Hayes ' public stance was that he refused to play Notre Dame because he was afraid of polarizing the Catholic population in Ohio, Notre Dame's long-time athletic director Edward " Moose " Krause said that Hayes had told him that Hayes liked having Michigan as the only tough game on the Ohio State schedule and that having the Buckeyes play Notre Dame would detract from that.

He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, of Irish Catholic extraction, the son of Michael Charles " Mike " Murphy, athletic trainer and coach, and the former Nora Long.

* Chicago Catholic League, a high school athletic conference based around the Chicago metropolitan area

* New Orleans Catholic League, a high school athletic league in the New Orleans, Louisiana area

* Metro Catholic Conference, a high school athletic conference in St. Louis, Missouri

* Butte Central Catholic High School's athletic teams

Most of the schools's athletic teams belong to the Greater Catholic League and / or Girls Greater Cincinnati League.

Catholic Central's arch athletic rival is Birmingham Brother Rice High School.

Cathedral Catholic has attempted to continue all of the traditions founded at USDHS, from the Dons mascot to the academic, athletic and social awareness standards.

The Washington Catholic Athletic Conference or WCAC is a major high school athletic league for boys, girls, and co-ed Catholic high schools located around and in Washington, DC, USA.

The West Catholic Athletic League or WCAL is a highly competitive high school athletic conference in the Central Coast Section of the California Interscholastic Federation.

Catholic Central's athletic complex, known as The C. A. T.

Below is a list of current athletic teams Catholic Central has ( some sports are a club team, which are listed as " club " in parentheses ):

All of the Prep's athletic teams compete in the Philadelphia Catholic League ( 16 schools ).

East Catholic has 46 athletic teams in that compete in 26 sports.

Blessed Trinity Catholic High School has one of the best high school sports medicine / athletic training programs in the state of Georgia.

Moeller High School's athletic teams – with the exception of boxing, lacrosse, skiing, and volleyball – are sanctioned by the Ohio High School Athletic Association ( OHSAA ) and compete in the Greater Catholic League South, along with Elder, St. Xavier and La Salle High Schools.