Vatican Gun Control

I know you supposedly care greatly about firearms getting onto the streets in the city you work (whether it be a lawful citizen or a criminal, there seems to be no difference to you between the two.). So I'd like to know why you wont talk about or get to the bottom of this story below. More specifically, the 45 other guns that this sheriff's deputy bought in your geographical area? Will you track those down? Gun used to shoot 3 Chicago cops traced to sheriff's deputy: sources Three officers were shot in the 3700 block of West Polk Street in the Homan Square neighborhood March 14, 2016. Police said an attacker was shot to death. Jeremy Gorner and Tony Briscoe Chicago Tribune The gun used in the shooting of three Chicago police officers last week has been linked to a former Chicago officer who later joined a police force in the northern suburbs, the Tribune has learned. Chicago police now are trying to figure out how t...

Catholic institutions in Georgia will restrict firearms from their sanctuaries, schools and other institutions following Gov. Nathan Deal’s approval of legislation that widely expands the state’s gun laws.   Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta. Archbishop Wilton Gregory wrote in a column in the Georgia Bulletin that he will “officially restrict” the presence of weapons in Georgia’s Catholic churches and religious institutions. Limited exceptions could be made for members of the military, law enforcement officials and others authorized by the government to protect the public, Gregory said. Wrote Gregory: The last thing we need is more firearms in public places, especially in those places frequented by children and the vulnerable. I do not want to suggest restricting firearms in places where they are needed, to protect one’s home and property or to defend the public by officials who are entrusted with our protection. Yet this new legislation de facto makes f...

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times - Thursday, April 11, 2013 Banning guns builds a “culture of life” and lawmakers must consider more clampdowns, not less, said one Catholic Church bishop in California in a written petition to U.S. senators. “Sadly, gun violence is too common a reality,” said Bishop Stephen Blair , chairman on the bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, in a letter to the U.S. Senate that was quoted by Catholic News Agency. The “violence that occurs daily in our homes and communities should lead us to answer the call of Pope Francis to ‘change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into peace.’” SEE ALSO: Senators avert gun filibuster, setting up hard fight; 16 Republicans among ‘no’ votes The bishop referenced in his letter S. 649, the Safe C...

CHICAGO — A Chicago community group is suing three suburbs, accusing them of not adequately monitoring gun stores they believe are the source of weapons that have filtered into the city. The Rev. Michael Pfleger on Tuesday announced the lawsuits against Lincolnwood, Lyons and Riverdale. The activist priest says many of the guns recovered from Chicago crime scenes came from stores in those communities. Lawyers for the Coalition for Safe Chicago Communities filed the lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court claiming the suburbs' gun store regulations violate the Illinois Civil Rights Act. Pfleger contends violence is a civil rights issue and by failing to monitor the gun sales adequately the stores are violating families' rights by preventing them from doing regular activities such as walk to school and play in parks. Link to story

Pro-gun Catholics clash with bishops' desire for firearm regulation A woman holds a handgun at the Cabela's store in Fort Worth, Texas, in 2008. (CNS/Reuters/Jessica Rinaldi) Aaron Schrank Religion News Service  |  Apr. 11, 2013 Share on facebook Share on twitter More Sharing Services 35 Print email PDF As the Senate takes up a heated debate over gun control and background checks, Catholic bishops have used the months since the Newtown, Conn., school shootings to push gun control in email blasts and Senate Judiciary Committee testimony. But among the Catholic faithful, not everyone supports gun control measures. Call them the NRA Catholics. John M. Snyder, a lifelong Catholic and former seminarian, is one...

VATICAN CITY -- The Catholic Church's position on gun control is not easy to find; there are dozens of speeches and talks and a few documents that call for much tighter regulation of the global arms trade, but what about private gun ownership? The answer is resoundingly clear: Firearms in the hands of civilians should be strictly limited and eventually completely eliminated. "The answer is resoundingly clear: Firearms in the hands of civilians should be strictly limited and eventually completely eliminated." But you won't find that statement in a headline or a document subheading. It's almost hidden in a footnote in a document on crime by the U.S. bishops' conference and it's mentioned in passing in dozens of official Vatican texts on the global arms trade. The most direct statement comes in the bishops' "Responsibility, Rehabilitation and Restoration: A Catholic Perspective on Crime and Criminal Justice" from November 2000. ...

This 'sculpture' stands outside of the United Nations building. The Vatican wants private firearms to be banned for all citizens of the world. They are very quiet about this fact and you can only find their statements in footnotes on Crime and Small Arms Treaty documents. Although not widely known, their desire to take guns away from private citizens is clear. Here is a statement from the US bishops taken from “A Catholic Perspective on Crime and Criminal Justice from November 2000: “As bishops, we support measures that control the sale and use of firearms and make them safer–especially efforts that precent their unsupervised use by children or anyone other than the owner–and we reiterate our call for sensible regulation of handguns.” The footnote says: “However, we believe that in the long run and with few exceptions–i.e, police officers, military use–handguns should be eliminated from our society.” The United Nations also calls for a ban on firearms for pri...