Tag: gun violence
Jesuit priests Javier Campos Morales and Joaquín César Mora Salazar murdered,...
MEXICO CITY-- Two Jesuit priests were murdered in a rugged region of Mexico rife with violence as they provided refuge to a person being...
‘If not now, when?’ Washington ‘March for our lives’ rally seeks...
WASHINGTON -- The son of Ruth E. Whitfield, the oldest victim of the racially motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo grocery store, told a...
George Marlin, leader of ‘Aid to the Church in Need/USA,’ U.S....
NEW YORK-- The brutal attack on people at a Catholic church in Nigeria on Pentecost Sunday is "an attack on the entire church," said...
Philadelphia teens talk about gun violence: ‘The world’s different now. It’s...
PHILADELPHIA -- As gun violence continues to plague the Philadelphia region and the nation as a whole, two teens served by Catholic Social Services...
‘Nowhere is safe in the country’ says Archbishop Lucius Ugorji, after...
LAGOS, Nigeria-- Condemning the actions of gunmen who attacked a Catholic Church as parishioners gathered for Mass on the feast of Pentecost, Nigeria's Catholic...
Do what we can before we each know the grief of...
When my Uncle Jim was murdered, I wondered if this is what it would take for every American to care about gun violence: to...
Uvalde parish mourns loss of couple from gun violence, heart attack
WASHINGTON — At a May 26 Mass, the Catholic community of Sacred Heart Church in Uvalde, Texas, comforted the four children of Joe and...
Fallen, injured Chicago officers held in prayer by Cardinal Blase Cupich,...
CHICAGO — Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago offered prayers for slain police officer Ella French and her family and friends “as they cope...
After school shootings in Knoxville, Tenn., bishop urges unity to find...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Bishop Richard F. Stika of Knoxville offered prayers for a teenager who was killed and an injured police officer involved in...
Catholic community in Newtown remembers those killed eight years ago at...
NEWTOWN, Conn. -- The Catholic community in Newtown gathered in-person and virtually Dec. 14 to remember the 20 students and six staff members killed...