Category: Shooting

Bishop decries second spate of gun fatalities in two weeks in Virginia

by bcadmin | Nov 23, 2022 | Chesapeake, News, Shooting, U.S. & World News, Virginia, Walmart | 0 |

Just ahead of Thanksgiving Day, “a time where we celebrate what we are most grateful for in our lives,” the nation awoke Nov. 23 “to the somber and agonizing news of more souls lost because of a senseless act of violence” at a Walmart in Chesapeake, said Bishop Barry C. Knestout of Richmond, Virginia.

Sisters of Mercy decry Ohio police shooting, Illinois mass shooting

by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Gun violence, News, Ohio, police brutality, Shooting | 0 |

The leadership team of the Sisters of Mercy said July 6 that a police shooting in Ohio in late June and the mass shooting in Illinois on the Fourth of July both “represent patterns of behavior and action that cannot continue to be commonplace.”

Tokyo archbishop condemns political violence after former Japanese PM shot

by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2022 | Church in Asia, Japan, lead, News, Shooting | 0 |

After a gunman shot former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe during a campaign rally on Friday in western Japan, Archbishop Isao Kikuchi of Tokyo said, “violence kills democracy.”

Pope saddened by Pentecost attack in Nigeria

by bcadmin | Jun 6, 2022 | Bishop Jude Arogundade, Catholics in Nigeria, From the Pope, Gunmen, News, Nigeria, Ondo, Pentecost attack in Nigeria, Pentecost Mass, Rotimi Akeredolu, Shooting | 0 |

Pope Francis expressed his solidarity and closeness with Catholics in Nigeria after gunmen stormed a church and reportedly killed at least 50 people during a Pentecost Mass.

Remembering Buffalo shooting victims, Catholics pray for end to racism

by bcadmin | May 24, 2022 | Buffalo, Buffalo shooting, Buffalo shooting victims, Franciscan parish, New York, News, Racism, Shooting, U.S. & World News | 0 |

From a Franciscan parish in a city where one of the victims once lived to a border city that experienced a similar mass shooting, Catholics around the nation have gathered to remember those gunned down May 14 in Buffalo, New York, and are praying for an end to violence and racism.

Bishop says Grand Rapids ‘hurt and angry’ after police shoot unarmed man

by bcadmin | Apr 15, 2022 | Church in the US, diocese of Grand Rapids, lead, Michigan, News, Police, police brutality, Shooting | 0 |

Bishop David Walkowiak of Grand Rapids has asked the community to pray for Patrick Lyoya, his family, and law enforcement after Lyoya was shot and killed by a Grand Rapids police officer following a traffic stop.

Richfield Catholic school goes into lockdown after nearby shooting

by bcadmin | Feb 2, 2022 | Blessed Trinity Catholic School, Fatal shooting, Local News, Lockdown, Nearby shooting, News, Richfield, Shooting | 0 |

A fatal shooting at a neighboring school in Richfield led to the lockdown of Blessed Trinity Catholic School’s Penn Campus Feb. 1. About 100 pre-K through third-grade students were moved to the school’s Nicollet Campus at 1:30 p.m., where they stayed until dismissal just after 2 p.m., said Principal Patrick O’Keefe, who noted that no one at his school was harmed in the incident.

Fallen officers sought bridges between NYPD, communities

by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2022 | Archdiocese of New York, Associated Press, Church in the US, News, Police, Shooting | 0 |

Jason Rivera was no stranger to tensions between New York City cops and some of the communities they police. Wilbert Mora, too, knew it from his youth in East Harlem, and spent his college years thinking about ways to bridge the divide.

Colorado Catholic church holds vigil for slain officer targeted by gunman

by bcadmin | Jun 26, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Colorado, News, Police, Shooting | 0 |

Arvada Police Officer Gordon Beesley, shot dead June 21 by a gunman who law enforcement officials said targeted him, was recalled during a Catholic church service as a man who brought a “smile with him everywhere” he went.

California bishop prays for victims of another ‘senseless’ shooting

by bcadmin | May 27, 2021 | Bishop Oscar Cantú, News, san jose, Santa Clara Valley, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, Shooting, U.S. & World News | 0 |

San Jose Bishop Oscar Cantú urged prayers for the victims and their families after a gunman opened fired the morning of May 26 at a rail yard operated by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, or VTA, north of downtown San Jose.

Polish pilgrims mark anniversary of attempt to assassinate St. John Paul

by bcadmin | May 13, 2021 | 40th anniversary, Assassination attempt, Cardinal Dziwisz, Cardinal Krajewski, Featured, John Paul II, Mehmet Ali Agca, News, Our Lady of Fatima, Polish Catholics, Polska w Sercu, Shooting, St. John Paul II, St. Peter's Square, U.S. & World News | 0 |

An elderly man stood alone in St. Peter’s Square May 13, using his wooden rosary beads to pray by a simple plaque marking the place where St. John Paul II was shot exactly 40 years earlier.

After people shot at Buffalo health clinic, St. Francis Xavier school takes precautions

by bcadmin | Feb 9, 2021 | Allina Health Clinic, Buffalo, Buffalo health clinic, Local News, Minneapolis Star Tribune, News, Shooting, St. Francis Xavier | 0 |

St. Francis Xavier Catholic School in Buffalo went into what the school described as a “soft lockdown” Feb. 9 after five people were injured in a shooting at about 10:55 a.m. at an Allina Health Clinic in Buffalo. The incident reportedly also included explosive devices.