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Groups are forming a 501(c)(3) for each school to fundraise. The St. Mary’s organization hopes to raise $10 million over the next five years.

Hundreds of people gathered at the Cathedral Basilica on Monday to honor Jean Kuczka, the teacher who lost her life last week when a gunman shot her and a student during an attack at the Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in south St. Louis. “The world is truly a better place because of Jean,” said her son Stephen Kuczka Jr.

Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski of St. Louis and Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of  Jefferson City, Missouri, offered prayers after three people died following an Oct. 24 shooting at a high school in St. Louis.

If approved, Amendment 3 would allow for recreational use, but the bishops warn the social costs would outweigh any state revenues to be generated by a taxable marijuana industry, while sending a message the drug is safe and socially acceptable.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (CNS) -- The Catholic bishops of Missouri are asking voters to vote 'no' on Amendment 3, which would legalize recreational use of marijuana in the state. 'We believe that marijuana legalization will negatively impact Missouri families, health outcomes, communities and workers,' the bishops said in a joint statement released by the Missouri Catholic Conference. Signing the statement were the heads of the state's four Catholic dioceses: Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski of St.