San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller was still tending to the pain of the community of Uvalde, Texas, reeling from a mass school shooting that in late May left 19 children, many of them fourth graders, and their two teachers dead, when another
U.S. President Joe Biden should consult with his bishop or parish priest about his stance on abortion, Pope Francis said, adding that the primary concern of bishops should be pastoral care.
In an interview that aired in the United States July 11 on
The July 4 mass shooting brought devastation to yet another community in the U.S. and such a tragic situation "has become shockingly commonplace in our country," said the chairmen of three committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
During a Fourth of
Saying he watched "in horror" news reports in the aftermath of a mass shooting during a suburban Fourth of July parade, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago offered prayers for the victims.
At least six people died and more than two dozen others
When schools close for the summer, their websites and Facebook pages often get pretty quiet too.
That's not the case for Sacred Heart Catholic School in Uvalde, Texas, established in 1913 by the Teresian Sisters.
The first image on the school's website is a
The chairman of the U.S. bishops' domestic policy committee June 14 praised a bipartisan Senate proposal "to help prevent senseless violence" that includes "reasonable gun safety measures."
"I am deeply grateful that members of Congress have undertaken bipartisan negotiations to address the plague
On Wednesday, a panel of Catholic leaders joined an online forum to discuss the Church’s response to the growing crisis of gun violence in the United States. Organized by the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University, the
In response to the multiple mass shootings in recent weeks, the chairmen of four U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' committees sent a letter to Congress urging lawmakers to "stop the massacres of innocent lives."
"We urge all members of Congress to reflect on
In the not-so-distant past, stating publicly that the victims of tragedies — such as mass shootings — would be included in one’s thoughts and prayers was seen as an act of love. Now, though, writes the Our Sunday Visitor Editorial Board, “thoughts
Publisher Scott P. Richert addresses the issue of a gun fetishization in our culture, particularly in films and games “Growing up in West Michigan in the 70’s and early 80’s, guns were a part of my life. I was never particularly interested