Cardinal Keeler, who led Baltimore archdiocese, has died

Cardinal William Keeler, who helped ease tensions between Catholics and Jews and headed the oldest Roman Catholic diocese in the U.S. for 18 years, died Thursday. He was 86.

Archbishop William Lori announced in a statement that Keeler died at St. Martin’s Home for the Aged in Catonsville. No cause of death was released.

Keeler retired in 2007 as the head of the archdiocese of Baltimore.