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To honor graduating high school seniors in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, The Catholic Spirit asked three Catholic high schools – Chesterton Academy in Hopkins, St. Thomas Academy in Mendota Heights and Totino-Grace in Fridley – to nominate students for the following profiles.

Several U.S. bishops spoke out against the easy accessibility to guns in the country following a May 24 rampage that left at least 19 children and two of their elementary school teachers dead in Uvalde, Texas.

When news broke of the May 24 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller was in a meeting with about 150 archdiocesan priests.

“There will not be #mnleg alignment on common-sense gun regulation, but this is something we can do immediately (to) protect our students. Gov. Walz and Sen. Miller have communicated to us their support in principle for this bill, and it is time to get it done,” MCC continued in its Twitter thread. 

Saying his heart was broken at the news of at least 19 children and two adults being shot and killed at a Texas elementary school, Pope Francis said it was time to say "Enough!" and enact stricter laws on gun sales.

From a Franciscan parish in a city where one of the victims once lived to a border city that experienced a similar mass shooting, Catholics around the nation have gathered to remember those gunned down May 14 in Buffalo, New York, and are praying for an end to violence and racism.

There is no telling when the iconic blue and white gingham dress worn by Judy Garland as Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz" will find a "place like home."

A Vatican-approved Chinese bishop remains in detention more than one year after his arrest for allegedly violating the communist country's repressive regulations on religious affairs.