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A student lights a candle in front of the North Carolina Capitol in Raleigh on Feb. 20 in memory of the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. The students were calling for safer gun laws after 17 people were killed when 19-year-old former student Nikolas Cruz stormed the Parkland school on Feb. 14 with an AR-15 semi-automatic style weapon. (CNS photo/Jonathan Drake, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyNews Analysis
Michael J. O’Loughlin
If Catholic leaders seriously want to push gun control legislation, what might a concerted campaign look like?
Father Ireneusz Ekiert, administrator of Mary Help of Christians Church in Parkland, Fla., leads parishioners during an outdoor Stations of the Cross service on Feb. 16 dedicated to the victims and survivors of the deadly mass shooting at nearby Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. (CNS photo/Tom Tracy)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Kate Stein
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.
FaithFaith in Focus
Emily Dagostino
Naming God in all things.
Joe Zevuloni weeps in front of a cross placed in a park to commemorate the victims of the shooting at nearby Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 16. At least 17 people were killed in the Feb. 14 shooting. (CNS photo/Carlos Garcia Rawlins, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Kevin Clarke
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.
FaithLast Take
Valerie Schultz
May we repent as we worship at the altar of the gun, even to the point of sacrificing our own children.
Politics & SocietyVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
“With God’s help, we can remain strong and resolute to resist evil in all its manifestations.”