(Inés San Martín, Crux) Pope Francis asked that society work to stop school shootings after 19 children and two adults were killed by a gunman in Texas on Tuesday. “My heart is shattered for the school tragedy in Texas,” Francis said at the end of his weekly Wednesday Audience. “I pray for the children and adults killed and their families.” The pontiff also used the opportunity to call for all to “say enough to the indiscriminate arms trade.” “Let us all commit ourselves so that such tragedies can never happen again,” he said. (...)
