In the wake of repeated mass shootings, most recently at a school in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14, many of us are asking what resources are available to educators to address questions of gun violence and gun control. In my experience teaching social ethics, I have found that Pope John XXIII’s social encyclical “Pacem in […]
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Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Parkland students arrive in Florida capital to urge action on gun reform
The afternoon shooting spree Feb. 14 at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County left at 17 people dead and at least 14 injured.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The United States is dangerous for children. How can we help more of them live to see adulthood?
Children in the U.S. have a 70 percent greater chance of dying before adulthood than in comparable nations. Guns, car accidents and lack of access to health care are to blame.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Reading Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac through the Parkland shooting
What can the church and her Scriptures say to those who are broken?
Posted inNews Analysis, Politics & Society
How the Catholic Church could help lead a gun control movement
If Catholic leaders seriously want to push gun control legislation, what might a concerted campaign look like?
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
A Catholic parish in Parkland preaches love the first Sunday after the massacre
In the midst of the unimaginable, Father Ekiert is telling his parishioners to show and live love daily—not just in a time of grief and horror.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What my 5-year-old taught me about prayer during Lent
Naming God in all things.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Can students of the Parkland massacre make a difference in U.S. gun debate?
This time the victims themselves are not having it. From the moment the first shots rang out, they captured the horror and broadcast it, forced the nation to confront it and talk about it.
Posted inFaith, Last Take
The spiritual lessons of a school shooting on Ash Wednesday
May we repent as we worship at the altar of the gun, even to the point of sacrificing our own children.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis, U.S. bishops offer prayers after another act of “horrifying evil” in Florida school shooting
“With God’s help, we can remain strong and resolute to resist evil in all its manifestations.”