USCCB President Condemns Shooting at White House Correspondents' Association Dinner

| 04/26/2026

By: The Good Newsroom

“We are grateful the lives of the President, those who protect him, and everyone in attendance last night were spared from serious harm,” said Archbishop Paul S. Coakley

U.S. President Donald Trump and Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, are pictured in a combination photo. In an April 7 statement, Archbishop Coakley said Trump's "threat of destroying a whole civilization and the intentional targeting of civilian infrastructure cannot be morally justified," and called on Trump "to step back from the precipice." (OSV News photo/Evan Vucci, Reuters/Bob Roller)

WASHINGTON — Following the news of the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) offered the following statement:

“We are grateful the lives of the President, those who protect him, and everyone in attendance last night were spared from serious harm. Let us all pray for our elected leaders and public officials that they may receive God’s blessings. Because human life is a precious gift, there is no room for violence of any kind in our society.”

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Archbishop Ronald Hicks

| 05/17/2026

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Archbishop Ronald Hicks

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