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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.

Mother remembers son who was killed by gun violence in July

On July 3, Lourdes Lara received the worst news of her life. In the early morning hours of that day, her son, Chrys Carvajal, 19, was killed in a drive-by shooting in Chicago’s Belmont Cragin neighborhood.

Mount Carmel mourns shooting death of student

The school community at Mount Carmel High School, an all-boys Catholic school located at 6410 S. Dante Ave., mourned the shooting death of 15-year-old sophomore Isaiah Wade, who starred as a defensive back and wide receiver on the school's football team, played lacrosse and had a 3.8 GPA.

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.
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