Gun Violence

Participants hold signs calling for an end to gun violence outside the Tennessee Capitol in Nashville April 18, 2023, during a Voices for a Safer Tennessee event. The group organized a three-mile-long human chain that drew more than 8,000 people and ended at the capitol to urge the Legislature to take steps to address gun violence. (OSV News photo/Rick Musacchio, Tennessee Register)

Catholic leaders join laity in push for gun safety in Tennessee

April 24, 2023
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (OSV News) -- Thousands upon thousands of Nashvillians, representing multiple faiths and backgrounds, came together on April 18 to create a three-mile human chain from Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt University Medical Center to the Cathedral ...
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Police deploy at the scene of a mass shooting near Slugger Field baseball stadium in downtown Louisville, Ky., April, 10, 2023. A gunman opened fire at a bank in downtown Louisville that morning, killing at least four people and sending nine to the hospital before he died by gunfire at the scene, Louisville Metro Police Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey said. (OSV News photo/Michael Clevenger, USA Today Network via Reuters)

Archbishop, governor call for prayer as Louisville mourns mass shooting

April 12, 2023
Amid calls for prayer and praise for first responders, officials confirmed that four people were killed in an April 10 mass shooting, Easter Monday morning, in a downtown bank in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Police officers arrive at the Covenant School on the grounds of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tenn., after reports of a shooting at the school March 27, 2023. At least six were killed -- three adults and three children -- police reported. (OSV News photo/Metropolitan Nashville Police Department handout via Reuters) NO ARCHIVES. MUST DISCARD 30 DAYS AFTER DOWNLOAD.

Diocesan officials call shooting at Nashville Presbyterian school ‘sad, shocking’

March 28, 2023
Officials of the Nashville Diocese called news of a morning mass shooting and loss of life at a private Christian school in the city heartbreaking and “deeply sad and shocking."
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Michigan State University students place flowers at "The Rock" on campus Feb. 14, 2023, the day after after a mass shooting at the university in East Lansing. A gunman opened fire at at two university locations leaving three dead and five others critically injured. After an hourslong manhunt police found the shooter off campus dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. (OSV News photo/Matthew Dae Smith, Lansing State Journal USA TODAY NETWORK via Reuters)

Michigan shooting victims memorialized at parish vigils, live-streamed rosary

February 17, 2023
Tears were shed, words of consolation were shared, and memories were cherished the evening of Feb. 14 during two emotional prayer vigils to honor the memory of three Michigan State University students whose lives were cut short during a shooting ...
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Editorial: Reckoning with Our Culture of Gun Violence

July 25, 2022
After praying for the victims in Uvalde, Pope Francis said, "It's time to say, 'Enough!' to the indiscriminate trafficking of guns."
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Gun Violence and Our Year of Living Dangerously

June 2, 2022
With gun violence on the rise, we as a nation find ourselves at a crossroads.
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