In the space of 11 days in May, 31 people were killed in two mass shootings in the United States: 10 on May 14 in Buffalo, New York, and 21 (including 19 elementary-aged children) in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24. The Uvalde
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.
In 2020, analysts tracked a lot of COVID-centric numbers, focusing on infections, hospitalizations and deaths. We followed the numbers up and down, watched the repeated swelling of the first that, as predicted, led to the second two. Plenty of news outlets —
Sacred Heart Catholic School in Jersey City remained closed Dec. 11, the day after gun battle involving two men around a kosher supermarket across the street from the school.
Six people, including a police detective and three customers in the supermarket, were killed
Amid the multiple mass shootings that took place in the U.S. during 2019, Catholic leaders spoke out against them, urged legislators to make changes to put a stop to these actions and asked Catholics to pray and work toward possible solutions. During
In the wake of a mass shooting that left 12 people dead in Virginia Beach, Virginia, the chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development called for American society to examine why such violent incidents continue to occur.
Catholic school leaders from New England to California are joining their public school counterparts in evaluating safety protocols and looking to see what they can do to prevent school shootings and other tragedies. From building relationships with local law enforcement agencies to
The world watched as hundreds of thousands of people — young and not-so-young — marched for an end to gun violence and called for gun reforms March 24. Indeed, gun violence is a disturbingly common problem in today’s society — especially when