Police in Madison, Wisconsin, said they are investigating a mass shooting at that city's Abundant Life Christian School Dec. 16 that left at least two killed and six injured, authorities said. The gunman is also dead, they said.
Lisa Lopez-Galvan, a Catholic mother of two and beloved disc jockey for the KKFI radio station in Kansas City, Missouri, was killed Feb. 14 amid a mass shooting following the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory parade.
President Joe Biden called a March 27 shooting at a school in Nashville, Tennessee, "sick," "heartbreaking" and "a family's worst nightmare," in remarks from the White House. The president called on Congress to pass an assault weapons ban.
Nashville Bishop J. Mark Spalding celebrated the 5:30 p.m. Mass March 27 at the Cathedral of the Incarnation to pray for the victims of the school shooting that morning at The Covenant School in the city's Green Hills neighborhood where it happened.
A 65-year-old Hispanic man was taken into custody the morning of Feb. 20 by Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies as the prime suspect in the murder of Auxiliary Bishop David G. O'Connell of Los Angeles.
Just ahead of Thanksgiving Day, "a time where we celebrate what we are most grateful for in our lives," the nation awoke Nov. 23 "to the somber and agonizing news of more souls lost because of a senseless act of violence" at a Walmart in Chesapeake, said Bishop Barry C. Knestout of Richmond, Virginia.
Pope Francis expressed his solidarity and closeness with Catholics in Nigeria after gunmen stormed a church and reportedly killed at least 50 people during a Pentecost Mass.
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.
A fatal shooting at a neighboring school in Richfield led to the lockdown of Blessed Trinity Catholic School’s Penn Campus Feb. 1. About 100 pre-K through third-grade students were moved to the school’s Nicollet Campus at 1:30 p.m., where they stayed until dismissal just after 2 p.m., said Principal Patrick O’Keefe, who noted that no one at his school was harmed in the incident.
San Jose Bishop Oscar Cantú urged prayers for the victims and their families after a gunman opened fired the morning of May 26 at a rail yard operated by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, or VTA, north of downtown San Jose.
An elderly man stood alone in St. Peter's Square May 13, using his wooden rosary beads to pray by a simple plaque marking the place where St. John Paul II was shot exactly 40 years earlier.
An elderly man stood alone in St. Peter's Square May 13, using his wooden rosary beads to pray by a simple plaque marking the place where St. John Paul II was shot exactly 40 years earlier.
