Tornado hits Ohio's Ursuline College; no one hurt

PEPPER PIKE, Ohio (AP) ? A tornado of 110 mph winds hit Ursuline College in northeast Ohio early Saturday morning, collapsing a wall of the school's athletic center and damaging other buildings but causing no injuries, officials said.

The EF1 twister hit about 3:35 a.m. northwest of the college and continued across part of the campus, meteorologist William Comeaux of the National Weather Service in Cleveland said. It reached 100-200 yards wide and traveled 1.3 miles.

Only a few students were on campus at the time and they were close to the athletic center that was hardest hit, a college spokeswoman said.

"The blessing is that there was no loss of life or injury," Sister Diana Stano, president of the 1,500-student school about 13 miles east of Cleveland, said on its website.

No one answered the main number for the college Saturday evening but a recorded message said the campus was closed Saturday and Sunday to assess the damage.

The website said the storm caused an external wall of the school's O'Brien Athletic Center to collapse and destroyed part of the roof. It also damaged several other buildings, including the Dauby Science Center and the Ralph M. Besse Library. Many trees were uprooted or destroyed and other campus facilities had minor damage.

College spokeswoman Angela DelPrete said only about five students were on campus at the time and they were about 1,000 feet from the gymnasium. She described debris scattered around the campus and broken windows. Weather service photos showed roof tiles torn away on the gymnasium exposing splintered wood and support beams.

Stano told The Plain Dealer that Ursuline was accepted as an NCAA Division II school only last week.

"Now we don't have a place to play," she said.

Ursuline was founded by Roman Catholic nuns as the first women's college in Ohio. Men now also attend the school.

Despite the damage Saturday, Comeaux said, "It's a beautiful area with lots of trees."

He said it's been about two years since a tornado has touched down in the region; the state averages 17-19 tornadoes per year. A disaster relief fund will be established to help rebuild the campus, the website said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/tornado-hits-ohios-ursuline-college-no-one-hurt-000200962.html

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Pope urges renewal of ?flimsy? Church structures

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Pope Francis. AP file photo

VATICAN CITY?Pope Francis on Saturday said Catholics should not be afraid of renewing ?old and flimsy structures? in the Church, as he plans a major overhaul of the scandal-ridden Vatican bureaucracy and bank.

?In Christian life and in Church life too there are old and flimsy structures. We need to renew them,? the pope said in his homily at a private mass for Swiss Guards, Vatican radio reported on its website.

?We should not be afraid of allowing the flimsy structures that imprison us to fall down,? he said.

?The Church has always allowed itself to be renewed? That is how the Church has developed, leaving it to the Holy Spirit to renew these structures. We should not be afraid of this,? the pope was quoted as saying.

Francis, a moderate conservative elected by a conclave of cardinals in March, has launched an investigation into the Vatican bank and has ordered a group of top cardinals to propose ways of reforming the Vatican administration at a meeting planned for October.

The Vatican bank, the Institute for Works of Religion, is at the center of an Italian money-laundering probe but the Vatican has made efforts in recent years to bring it into line with international rules.

A series of leaks of confidential Vatican documents by then pope Benedict XVI?s butler last year exposed allegations of corruption and mismanagement in the Roman Curia, the central administration of the Church.

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