Some U.S. bishops spoke out against the easy accessibility to guns in the country following a May 24 rampage that left at least 19 children and two of their elementary school teachers dead in Uvalde, Texas.

Baltimore native Deacon Juan Pablo Ruiz is one of four Jesuits of the USA Central and Southern Province (UCS) who will be ordained to the priesthood June 11, 2022, in St. Louis, Mo.

Sulpician Father Daniel F. Moore was elected provincial superior of his religious society at a meeting in Baltimore May 19.

The latest tragedies in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, N.Y., arrive less than a month before my personal anniversary of gloom on June 28 – the date four years ago when five of my newspaper colleagues were shot to death in an Annapolis newsroom.

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, N.Y., and are praying for an end to violence and racism.