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Overcoming gun absolutism
Official at Miami Catholic university resigns over gun control controversy
The top financial administrator of a Catholic university in Miami has resigned rather than step down from the board of a company that manufactures weapons, including automatic rifles such as the AR-15, which was recently used in the mass shooting of students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Prep school students ‘walk out’ and ‘walk up’
The event was planned to honor the lives of the 17 people killed Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and raise awareness about the need to end gun violence.
Catholics urge political leaders to take steps to curb gun violence
In a Feb. 28 open letter to President Donald Trump and members of Congress, Jesuit Father Michael Sheeran, president of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, urged U.S. leaders to listen to the teens who survived the Parkland, Florida, school shooting and help them “fix this” plague of gun violence in our country.
Newtown and gun violence: One place where the political became personal
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The numbers are inescapable: Dec. 14, 26 dead, five years. Those are the basic grim numbers behind the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting […]
Nation’s leaders urged to ‘engage in real debate’ on curbing gun violence
The nation’s leaders “must engage in a real debate about needed measures to save lives and make our communities safer,” said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ domestic policy committee.
Five Dallas officers killed in ambush; bishop calls for prayer and peace
Five Dallas law enforcement officers were assassinated July 7 as at least one sniper opened fire in downtown Dallas as hundreds of demonstrators were winding down a march protesting recent fatal officer-involved shootings in other parts of the country.