Embattled US Catholic bishop resigns after priest complaints, abuse-related lawsuits
Vatican City AP The Bishop of Knoxville, Tennessee, resigned under pressure Tuesday following allegations he mishandled sex abuse allegations and several of his priests complained about his leadership and behaviour, sparking a Vatican investigation. Pope Francis accepted Bishop Richard Stika’s resignation, according to a one-line statement from the Vatican. At 65, Stika is still 10 […]
In the US, SBC official Brent Leatherwood urges Tennessee lawmakers to pass red flag law
United States RNS In late March, Brent Leatherwood got what he called “the most terrifying call a parent could imagine.” There was a shooter at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, where his three children attend. His children survived the attack. Three of their schoolmates did not. Three of the staff at the school were also killed. […]
Postcards: In Nashville, Palm Sunday is a balm after school shooting – pastors
HOLLY MEYER, of Associated Press, reports from Tennessee in the wake of last week’s school shooting…
Push for reform: Tennessee’s God and guns culture under fire as protests mount in Capitol
BOB SMIETANA, of Religion News Service, reports that hundreds of protesters rallied at the Tennessee Capitol this week amid calls for red flag laws and other reforms in the wake of the state’s deadliest school shooting…
Essay: Nashville attack renews calls for assault weapons ban – data shows there were fewer mass shooting deaths during an earlier 10-year prohibition
In an article first published on The Conversation, MICHAEL J KLEIN, clinical assistant professor of surgery at New York University, looks at what the data shows about the effectiveness of bans on assault weapons…
Nashville mourns victims of school shooting, Governor speaks of “need for hope”
Updated: 11:25am (AEDT) Nashville, Tennessee, US Reuters First lady Jill Biden visited Nashville on Wednesday to join a memorial vigil for the three children and three adults shot to death this week at a Christian day school, including two educators who were close friends of the Tennessee governor’s wife. The outdoor ceremony was scheduled to […]
Nashville school shooter had ’emotional disorder’ and small arsenal, police say
Nashville, Tennessee, US Reuters The 28-year-old former student who killed three children and three adults at a Christian grade school in Nashville on Monday was under a doctor’s care for an “emotional disorder” and had purchased seven guns ahead of the shooting, the city’s police chief said on Tuesday. New details about Audrey Elizabeth Hale […]
Updated: Ex-student shoots dead three children, three adults at Tennessee Christian school
Updated: 5:50pm (AEDT) Nashville, Tennessee Reuters A heavily armed 28-year-old fatally shot three children and three adult staffers on Monday at a private Christian school the suspect once attended in Tennessee’s capital city before police killed the assailant, authorities said. The motive was not immediately known but the suspect had drawn detailed maps of the […]
Memphis teen one of two charged in US church leader’s 2022 killing
Memphis, Tennessee, US AP A 15-year-old boy and a 21-year-old man have been indicted in the carjacking and fatal shooting of a prominent United Methodist Church leader in Memphis, Tennessee, prosecutors said this week. Miguel Andrade, 15, and Eduard Rodriguez-Tabora, 21, were each indicted on charges of first-degree murder and especially aggravated robbery in the 18th […]
Faith leaders urge independent review of Alabama executions
Montgomery, Alabama, US AP More than 170 pastors and other faith leaders on Tuesday urged Alabama Governor Kay Ivey to authorise an independent review of execution procedures, as Oklahoma and Tennessee did after a series of failed lethal injections in those states. The group applauded Ivey for taking the “bold and necessary step” of ordering a review of Alabama […]