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Calling out racism, El Paso bishop forms commission a year after massacre

He was surrounded by photos of fellow El Pasoans, who spent the last moments of their lives one summer morning a year ago running for safety while shopping at superstore.

Statement on Jacob Blake shooting

Jacob Blake and his family need and deserve our prayers. State investigators have reported that Jacob was shot seven times in the back by a police officer and his family reports that he may never walk again. We also know that his three young children were left traumatized as they watched their father nearly killed before their eyes.

Little Village’s Padres Angeles changing hearts, promoting peace

On Nov. 17, 2012, Doris Hernández’s son Freddy, 20, died after being shot in the face and chest while standing in an alley in Little Village. Following the shooting, she attended a vigil for him held at the scene and where his blood was being washed off the pavement. About 80 people were there.

Standing up to persecution

After Martin Luther King Jr. and a group of peaceful demonstrators were tear-gassed by police in June of 1966 in Canton, Mississippi, the pastor of the local Catholic church, Holy Child Jesus, sheltered the marchers.

Bishop: Shootings show 'all communities are affected by racism'

Three mass shooting incidents in the United States in the span of a week are now showing that "their emotional impact is resonating, understandably, across the nation," said Bishop Shelton J. Fabre of Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism.

El Paso bishop meets with victims of mass shooting, family members

The bishop of El Paso, Texas, met with the families of those who were killed and wounded during the Aug. 3 shooting at a Walmart in the city where he serves, and in a statement following the meeting said his heart “was breaking,” after seeing up-close the human aftermath of the crime.

Statement of Cardinal Cupich on the tragedies in El Paso, Dayton

Cardinal Cupich released the following statement on Aug. 4, 2019: Today the Archdiocese of Chicago mourns and prays for the victims of yesterday’s gun massacres in El Paso and Dayton. We stand with their loved ones demanding an end to this deadly status quo.

Thoughts and prayers

I was taking a break from wandering the streets of downtown Philadelphia, home to Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell, when I heard about the terrorist attack in El Paso.

Pope Francis joins prayers for victims of bloody weekend in U.S.

Pope Francis joined Catholic Church leaders expressing sorrow after back-to-back mass shootings in the United States left at least 29 dead and dozens injured in Texas and Ohio on Aug. 3 and 4.

‘Conquer bitterness with sacrificial love,’ bishop tells Virginians

Bishop Barry C. Knestout of Richmond celebrated Masses at St. Gregory the Great and St. John the Apostle churches in Virginia Beach June 2, two days after 12 people were shot to death in the city’s Municipal Center.
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