Tag: Shooting
Bishop calls mass shooting at naval station ‘truly heartbreaking’
Reacting to “the horrific mass shooting” that took place early Dec. 6 at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Bishop William A. Wack of Pensacola-Tallahassee said the “tragedy in our diocese is truly heartbreaking.”
California school shooting hits home for Santa Clarita Catholics
It was the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time at St. Kateri Tekakwitha Church in Santa Clarita.
Archbishop urges L.A. Catholics to join him in prayer for shooting victims
Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez asked Catholics of the archdiocese to pray with him for the victims of the Nov. 14 shooting at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
El Paso bishop calls out racism but urges accused shooter’s life be spared
It’s a pastoral letter that pulls no punches, goes far into the past and continues up to the recent present of racism at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Catholic leaders respond with ‘heavy hearts’ to Texas shooting
Catholic leaders across the United States reacted with sorrow and “heavy hearts” to a mass shooting in west Texas Aug. 31 that authorities said claimed seven lives and wounded 25 others.
‘So many funerals,’ says El Paso priest who comforted grieving kin
Father Fabian Marquez was the right priest at a very wrong time.
Disrespect for life, lack of moral center seen as factors in gun violence
In this American age of violence, where 165 shootings happened this year alone, where politicians scream at each other across the aisle about gun laws and Second Amendment rights without even the common ground of mutual respect, religious leaders, scholars and TV personalities alike notice a more insidious problem with American culture.
Teen who died saving classmates in school shooting made a Knight
As residents of El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, mourned the loss of 31 people in mass shootings Aug. 3 and Aug. 4, the Knights of Columbus honored a teen who died in May trying to save the lives of his classmates during a shooting at his suburban Denver high school.
Hearts ‘heavy with sadness’ over shooting at garlic festival, bishop says
Hundreds gathered late July 29 at St. Mary’s Church for a bilingual prayer service, invited by Gilroy’s Catholic community “to come together and pray for all those affected by the senseless tragedy.”
‘Conquer bitterness with sacrificial love,’ bishop tells Virginians
Bishop Barry C. Knestout of Richmond celebrated Masses at St. Gregory the Great and St. John the Apostle churches in Virginia Beach June 2, two days after 12 people were killed in the city’s Municipal Center.
Pope saddened by church attack in Burkina Faso, Vatican spokesman says
Pope Francis expressed his closeness to and prayers for the victims of a shooting at a Catholic Church in Burkina Faso, which claimed the lives of six people.
Catholic school students pray for mosque shooting victims, peace
A week after the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, and almost 9,000 miles away from this tragedy, Catholic school students in Maryland gathered to pray for the victims and to recommit themselves to ending hate.
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