Two second-grade students at Overbrook Catholic School in Nashville have been “busy bees” the last month, making 2,500 beaded bracelets, and it’s for one very special reason — to raise $17,000 to purchase a therapy dog for the students of The Covenant School, where an assailant killed six people including three 9-year-old students March 27.
Second graders at Nashville Catholic school make, sell bracelets to buy therapy dog for peers at school where mass shooting occurred
National/World news briefs: Oct. 17, 2022
In focus: World Food Day, letter to young people, Parkland school shooting sentence, legalizing marijuana use in Missouri
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In the spotlight: Mass shooting in Thailand, Hurricane Ian relief, National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada
Michigan community picks up pieces after ‘everyone’s worst nightmare’
As shockwaves continued to reverberate in the community, those at nearby St. Joseph Catholic School were among the mourners.
Despair will not have the last word, Miami archbishop says of shooting
In the wake of the Feb. 14 school shootings in Parkland, Florida, which left 17 people dead, Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami wrote this spiritual reflection for Catholic News Service on how we as Catholics deal with such terrible acts.
With growing student activism on gun violence, will lawmakers act?
Determination and resolve, mixed with frustration and anger, are guiding a new round of resolute activism to reshape federal gun laws.
Parkland students urge Florida lawmakers to reform gun laws
About 100 students from Parkland arrived in Tallahassee the evening of Feb. 20, highly motivated to press their state lawmakers in person to reform gun laws after the deadly shooting rampage at their high school.
Church’s Lenten observance dedicated to shooting victims, their families
A parish community less than two miles away and directly impacted by the Feb. 14 school shooting at a Broward County high school is finding new purpose in Lent this year, according to the parish administrator.