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Four religious communities with ministries in Kentucky have issued a joint statement following the April 10 mass shooting in Louisville calling for tougher enforcement of gun regulations and "sensible gun regulations."
In a series of decrees issued on March 23, the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints confirmed the “heroic virtue” of the following, who will now be eligible for beatification if a miracle is attributed to their intercession:
Carlo Crespi Croci (1891-1982), an Italian Salesian priest who died in Ecuador;
Maria Caterina Flanagan (1892-1942), an English Bridgettine;
Leonilde di San Giovanni Battista (1890-1945), an Italian Missionary Sister of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary;
María do Monte Pereira (1897-1963), a Portuguese sister of the Hospitaller Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus;
Teresa Enríquez de Alvarado (1456 1529), a Spanish lay woman; and
Maria Domenica Lazzeri (1815 1848), an Italian lay woman.
Youth from the Lakay Don Bosco musical program, which is known as “With our musical instruments we fight violence,” recently put on an event to showcase their talents. There are more than 100 youth involved, who are from Lakay Don Bosco and the surrounding La