In the hours after a Washington teenage boy was shot and killed April 4 on the platform of the Brookland-CUA Metro station, The Catholic University of America canceled evening classes and athletic practices and advised students to shelter in place as police
Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker donated a jersey and sent a touching message to the family of Lisa Lopez-Galvan, the Catholic mother killed during a mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade.
In a message sent to the family,
“It is with sincere sadness and an extremely heavy and broken heart that we let our community know that KKFI DJ Lisa Lopez, host of Taste of Tejano lost her life today in the shooting at the KC Chiefs’ rally,” the radio
A retired Florida Catholic priest and his sister were killed in a multi-location rampage that also took the life of another man, left two police officers injured and ended with the death of the suspect.
Father Robert Hoeffner and his sister, Sally Hoeffner,
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis expressed his spiritual closeness to the victims and all those affected by a mass shooting that killed 14 people and injured another 25 at a historic university in Prague, Czech Republic. The pope was "deeply saddened
A Mexican bishop has called for people not to be indifferent after the massacre of a dozen young people at a Christmas party in one of the country's most violent states.
Gunmen burst into the party Dec. 17 at a former hacienda in
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — After the “unspeakable tragedy” of the shooting rampage that left 18 victims dead and another dozen people injured in Lewiston, Maine, Pope Francis prayed that God would give the entire United States his “blessings of strength and peace.”
LEWISTON, MAINE (OSV NEWS) "Evil is part of the world in which we live," said Bishop Robert P. Deeley of Portland, Maine during a Mass Oct. 27 in Lewiston, Maine. "It's how we deal with it which is important." Bishop Deeley made
LEWISTON, Maine (OSV News) -- Amid a manhunt for a suspected mass shooter, a pastor in Maine is calling for "three-pronged prayer." Father Daniel Greenleaf, pastor of Prince of Peace Parish in Lewiston, told OSV News that he is interceding for at
On Aug. 28, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was placed on lockdown as reports emerged just after 1 p.m. (local time) of an active shooter on campus. Some 90 minutes later, suspect Tailei Qi, a doctoral student, was arrested