The shock caused by a tragedy like the mass shooting in Uvalde, Tex., can change people’s hearts, dissolving apathy and stripping away callousness.
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Students wounded in Uvalde shooting receive scholarships to local Catholic school
Sacred Heart Catholic School in Uvalde, Texas, will receive scholarship money for new students that transferred from Robb Elementary School.
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Cars kill almost as many Americans as guns. And we can do something about it.
Like gun violence, car-related violence is also a uniquely American problem.
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The Parkland shooter, the death penalty and the limits of human compassion
It is right and just to feel anger at people like the Parkland shooter. What do we do with that anger, though?
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‘Are we stuck in this hell forever?’ And other questions I’m asking after another mass shooting
Dante’s great insight in “Inferno” is that ultimately the only way out of hell is going through it, by confronting what we see there and what we feel.
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Cardinal Cupich urges unity to ‘build path to safety and peace’ after mass shooting
Cardinal Cupich, among others, expressed dismay at the recent mass shootings in Chicago and Philadelphia. Cupich repeated his call “to enact serious, broadly popular gun safety measures.”
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A prayer for the children and parents who live in fear of school shootings
One month after Uvalde, we are growing numb to gun violence. Even so, we must resolve to comfort the mourners, to beat guns into plowshares, and to say “never again” and mean it.
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Bishops and Catholic leaders praise Senate’s bipartisan deal on gun safety
“I am deeply grateful that members of Congress have undertaken bipartisan negotiations to address the plague of gun violence in our nation,” Archbishop Paul S. Coakley said.
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Parenting as a Catholic pacifist in an era of mass shootings
I have called myself a peacemaker. I have never held a gun and never want to. But I am also a father, and I will always protect my children.
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‘What other studies do we need to do of dead bodies?’ Catholic leaders lament inaction on gun control
“We have a system or systems that are failing,” said the archbishop of San Antonio, Tex., which includes Uvalde, said. “They’re obsolete. They’re not, anymore, what we need as a society.”