NRA - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Wed, 09 May 2018 00:08:00 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg NRA - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Jesus loves me and my guns: NRA prayer breakfast https://cathnews.co.nz/2018/05/10/jesus-loves-me-and-my-guns/ Thu, 10 May 2018 08:20:53 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=106962 At the NRA's Annual Prayer Breakfast Adam LaRoche sported a black T-shirt with a message "Jesus loves me and my guns." LaRoche is a retired major league first baseman. He hit 255 home runs in a 12-year career. In 2016 he walked away from a $13 million contract with the Chicago White Sox after the team asked him to Read more

Jesus loves me and my guns: NRA prayer breakfast... Read more]]> At the NRA's Annual Prayer Breakfast Adam LaRoche sported a black T-shirt with a message "Jesus loves me and my guns."

LaRoche is a retired major league first baseman. He hit 255 home runs in a 12-year career.

In 2016 he walked away from a $13 million contract with the Chicago White Sox after the team asked him to bring his son into the clubhouse less often.

"Don't get me wrong: Jesus is all about love, grace, mercy," said LaRoche.

But that doesn't mean Jesus was a pacifist and always carried a white lamb around and tiptoed through life avoiding controversy." Read more

Jesus loves me and my guns: NRA prayer breakfast]]> 106962 It's mourning in America https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/08/07/its-mourning-in-america/ Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:33:18 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=31056

Like the rest of the country, I was horrified to hear of the massacre at the midnight screening of the new Batman film. I've witnessed gun violence firsthand from a very early age. All my life, I've seen families mourning the way that the families in Colorado are now mourning. I wish there was something Read more

It's mourning in America... Read more]]> Like the rest of the country, I was horrified to hear of the massacre at the midnight screening of the new Batman film. I've witnessed gun violence firsthand from a very early age. All my life, I've seen families mourning the way that the families in Colorado are now mourning. I wish there was something that I could do to make sure that nothing like this ever happens again — but I can't.

Nor, apparently, can anyone else. If they could have, then they would have done so already. Some of us are old enough to remember when a madman poisoned packages of Tylenol in 1982. Seven people died, and the reaction was immediate: the entire run of the product was recalled. Packaging was changed so that the buyer would know it's safe and wasn't tampered with. Liberal or conservative had nothing to do with it. It was not treated as a political issue. No one claimed that making it marginally harder to get at those headache pills was the first step toward dictatorship. Read more

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D L Hughley is an actor and stand-up comedian.

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