Two local bishops offered prayers for victims after a shooting left one person dead and more than 20 people injured at the conclusion of the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade.
Local bishops offer prayers for victims, including 11 children, after Super Bowl victory parade shooting
‘Our prayers go up’: Kansas City Catholics turn to faith, dialogue after Ralph Yarl shooting
The shooting has sparked outcry over both racial tensions and gun violence, with local and national leaders weighing in.
Archbishop, governor call for prayer as Louisville mourns mass shooting ‘in the shadow of the cross’
At least nine people were injured, including two LMPD officers, during the shooting at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky.
Mass shootings bring renewed calls for Catholics to prioritize common good over guns
The mass shootings are just some of the violent events with multiple casualties involving guns that have become more common in the United States in recent years.
After Nashville school shooting, Biden renews call for assault weapons ban and universal background checks
Biden made remarks on the shooting that occurred that mornin at Covenant School on the grounds of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tenn., that three adults and three children dead.
Social ministry ‘fundamentally a work of faith,’ cardinal says
The Mass celebrated by Cardinal Wilton Gregory came on the final day of the Jan. 28-31 Catholic Social Ministry Gathering. The meeting addressed workers’ rights, migrants and refugees, housing inequities, hunger and food insecurity, poverty, climate change, systemic racism, gun violence, restorative justice, abortion, domestic violence, and “pro-woman and pro-family policies.”
Hundreds comfort one another, grieve together at Mass after shooting
Restricting access to high-powered firearms should be a simple decision, the cardinal said, drawing applause from the congregation.
Biden offers condolences after killing of former Japanese prime minister
The event has stunned the world because of the victim, the longest serving Japanese prime minister, but also because killing someone with a gun in the country of an estimated 125 million people is almost unheard of.