null / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA.Vatican City, Mar 29, 2023 / 05:27 am (CNA).Pope Francis has expressed his sorrow over a shooting at a private Presbyterian Christian school in Nashville.A person took the lives of three 9-year-old students and three adult staff members at Covenant School March 27 before being shot in a gunfight with Nashville police."Deeply saddened to learn of the recent shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, His Holiness Pope Francis asks you to convey his heartfelt condolences and the assurance of his prayers to all affected by this senseless act of violence," the pope s March 29 message said.The telegram was addressed to Bishop Mark Spalding of Nashville and signed by Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin.Pope Francis "joins the entire community in mourning the children and adults who died and commends them to the loving embrace of the Lord Jesus," it continued."He likewise invokes the consolation and strength of the Holy Spirit upon
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (OSV News) Officials of the Nashville Diocese called news of a morning mass shooting and loss of life at a private Christian school in the city heartbreaking and deeply sad and shocking.
Six individuals, including three children and school head Katherine Koonce, were fatally shot during the mid-morning hours March 27, at The Covenant School in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville. The private, Christian school educates students in preschool through sixth grade and was
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (OSV News) Nashville Bishop J. Mark Spalding celebrated the 5:30 p.m. Mass March 27 at the Cathedral of the Incarnation to pray for the victims of the school shooting that morning at The Covenant School in the city s Green Hills neighborhood where it happened. On this day of such tragedy, we come here to gather as a people who live in hope, in faith and in love, Bishop Spalding said at the beginning of Mass. So, as we gather today, mindful of what our faith teaches us, th