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Waukegan parish hosts city’s first gun buyback event

When Most Blessed Trinity Parish in Waukegan hosted its city’s first-ever gun buyback event on April 29 in partnership with the Waukegan Police Department, 166 firearms were collected along with rounds of ammunition.

Cardinal asks for donations to support gun buyback event at Waukegan parish

Most Blessed Trinity Parish and the Waukegan Police Department will hold a gun buyback event at the parish on April 29.

Podcast: Women religious hold peace vigils for homicide victims

Joyce Duriga is joined by Sr. Donna Liette, C.PP.S. to discuss her ministry and how women religious are now holding monthly vigils to pray for homicide victims.

Highland Park parish holds listening session to help people heal

As the people of Highland Park continue to try to process and heal from the July 4 mass shooting that rocked their community, Immaculate Conception and St. James Parish held a listening session on July 26 where parishioners and the community could speak to a priest or a deacon about their experiences and have the opportunity for the priest or deacon to pray with them.

Parish offers comfort to children who lost both parents in Uvalde

At a May 26 Mass, the Catholic community of Sacred Heart Church in Uvalde, Texas, comforted the four children of Joe and Irma Garcia. Their first loss came May 24 with the death of their mother, a teacher fatally shot during the attack at her elementary school, and it was followed by the death of their father two days later from a fatal heart attack.

Statement on the massacre of children in Uvalde, Texas

On May 24, a gunman stormed into an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and slaughtered at least 19 children and two teachers. The shooter allegedly shot his grandmother before driving to the school. The 18-year-old suspect was killed by police.

What am I to say?

When I heard the news about the shooting of 19 fourth graders and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, I was at work. I came across a tweet, just saying that that there was an active shooter at an elementary school.

Repair scandal through the healing of the Eucharist

Pity the grocery shoppers in Buffalo, the school kids in Texas, their grieving families, and everyone now more afraid than ever of doing those simple, everyday things.

Five windows at St. Margaret of Scotland School shot out

When St. Margaret of Scotland School principal Shauntae Davis got word early in the morning of May 25 that several of the school’s windows had been shot out, she notified families and offered them the option of keeping their children at home for the day.

Statement of Cardinal Cupich on the racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York

On Saturday, May 14, a gunman used an AR-15, high-capacity assault weapon to murder 10 Black Americans at a Buffalo grocery store, wounding two bystanders. Many of his victims were near or beyond retirement age, including Pearl Young, 77, a grandmother of eight who taught Sunday school, and Katherine Massey, 72, a civil-rights advocate who had written in favor of stronger gun-safety laws.
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