GIVING THANKS TO GOD FOR THAT WHICH DID PREVENT THE LOSS OF MORE LIFE AND ADVOCATING FOR THE PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE AND DEATH TOWARD HUMAN LIFE….THAT WHICH MUST YET BE DONE!

The tragic and senseless murder of children and adults and the wounding of many more at Annunciation School in Minneapolis is almost too much to process and we grieve with those who have had someone murdered in the most sacred place and during the most sacred act of worship the Catholic Church has.

As a priest who has celebrated so many school Masses, it brings tears to my eyes.

While we grieve with those who have lost loved ones, we also give thanks to God that steps were taken to mitigate against the loss of life. If not for those steps this tragedy would have been on an unbelievable scale perhaps surpassing the horror of Uvalde, Texas!

What were those pro-active steps the parish and school of Annunciation took? They locked the doors of the church once the children had entered for Mass and adults were stationed at the entrance of the church. The shooter was not allowed to enter the church. That meant he had to go around to the side of the building and start shooting blindly through stained glass windows. He could not see who he was shooting or what horror he was inflicting, but he knew to shoot low to hit children and others. 

You can see from the photos above, that he could not see who he was shooting through those narrow stained glass windows. 

However, if he had been able to get inside, the devastating horror would have been unbelievably greater. We thank God and those who took pro-active steps to prevent a much greater horror than what occurred. 

How do we as a church and country take more pro-active steps to mitigate those who have a death wish for themselves and others through sheer hatred for human life and its sanctity?

WE MUST RESTORE A CULTURE OF PROMOTING THE SANCTITY OF HUMAN LIFE!

1. Our culture of promoting the murder of children on demand through abortion must be stopped by law! No more abortion! No more legal euthanasia! No more legal assisted suicide and make suicide illegal!

2. Our culture that succumbs to the corruption of our children’s moral, spiritual and mental health must be stopped especially the ideological colonization of our children’s morals and bodily integrity by the LGBTQ+++ fanatics. 

3. Laws must be enacted that prevents the spiritual, moral, mental and physical abuse of minors by allowing parents or others to determine what gender a child can choose and allowing children to be transvestites and worse undergo chemical and physical castration, and mutilation of genitals. This must be outlawed for minors until a person reaches 21 years old and parents should be prosecuted for allowing children to choose that which they have no right to choose. 

4. Common sense laws to prevent the sale of military type long-guns and other automatic weapons must be strengthened and background checks made and perhaps a simple psychiatric test. But let’s face it, just like during prohibition, alcohol was bootlegged, so too automatic weapons. 

5. As a society we must address the social and moral morass of our country and how ideological groups, often political in nature, colonize so many away from proper morals and mores in society and promote a culture of death, a rejection of natural law and the marginalization of faith and morals.