Tragedy Hits Hard, Faith Endures: Basketball Legend Kobe Bryant, practicing Catholic, dead at 41

Tragedy Hits Hard, Faith Endures: Basketball Legend Kobe Bryant, practicing Catholic, dead at 41

CNA, CBJ—Basketball superstar Kobe Bryant died Sunday in a helicopter crash in the mountains of Calabasas in Southern California.  He was flying from Orange County, California, where Bryant lives with his family. It crashed in foggy conditions, about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, en route to Bryant’s youth basketball academy, near Calabasas, California,…