Cardinal Keeler in a car crash in Italy - another priest dies

[Jennifer_G]

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Crash Injures Cardinal Keeler, Kills Priest
(WJZ) ROME Cardinal William Keeler was injured in an accident in Italy that killed another priest and injured a third, the Archdiocese of Baltimore said.

Keeler and the two other priests were driving Saturday through the city of Terni, about 60 miles outside of Rome, when a car struck the passenger side of their vehicle, archdiocese spokesman Sean Caine said.

Father Bernard Quinn, 78, a retired priest from the Diocese of Harrisburg, was riding in the back seat and was killed in the crash, Caine said.

Monsignor Thomas Smith, 75, a pastor of St. Joseph parish in Lancaster, Pa., was driving, and Keeler, 75, was in the front passenger seat, Caine said. Smith broke several ribs, and Keeler suffered a broken ankle. Both remain in a hospital near the crash scene, Caine said.

Cardinal Keeler is very popular here in Baltimore.

 

[Della]

What sad news. May Fr. Quinn rest in peace, and may God grant Fr. Smith and Cardinal Keeler quick and complete recovery from their injuries. I will remember them, especially the repose of the soul of Fr. Quinn, in my Evening Prayer intentions.