Catholics know that prayers and thoughts must also be matched by pro-active initiatives. You don’t just pray that a serious illness will go away, you also go and visit a doctor.
But in hopeless situations, prayers and thoughts are all the more needed to assist those in hopeless situations to place their lives into the hands of God and His mercy and the promise of a new and happy life with Jesus after our personal judgement at the moment of our death.
Yet democrats, beginning with the grandstanding Mayor Jacob Fry of Minneapolis, disgracefully made “prayers and thoughts” into a political talking point to move forward their partisan politics as it concerns their vision how to end gun violence.
In fact, at a nationwide live broadcast press conference where law enforcement would inform the public for the first time about the details of the tragedy at Annunciation Church and School, this mayor, knowing he had an international platform and to get out front to a world audience, grandstanded before law enforcement made any announcements about what had happened and who had been shot and killed, ridiculed people for their “prayers and thoughts” and then began the democrats’ political talking point, “prayers and thoughts aren’t enough! Those kids were praying and for what?” DISGRACEFUL POLITICAL GRANDSTANDING AS A TRAGEDY IS IN PROGRESS AND THE DEAD STILL IN THE CHURCH!
Even some clergy used democrats talking points for political purposes in the midst of this tragedy!
This is a good article to read to see how horrible this strategy is and democrats should apologize to all praying and thinking Catholics and others who pray and think:
Copied from American Greatness (AG)
Minnesota Bishop Robert Barron Calls Democrats’ Mockery of Prayer After Catholic Church Shooting ‘Completely Asinine’
Minnesota Bishop Robert Barron slammed Democrat politicians like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for mocking “thoughts and prayers” following Wednesday’s deadly Catholic church shooting, calling their criticism “completely asinine.”
“Catholics don’t think that prayer magically protects them from all suffering. After all, Jesus prayed fervently from the cross on which he was dying,” Barron told Fox News, Thursday.
Two children, ages 8 and 10, died in the mass shooting and eighteen others were injured Wednesday after trans gunman Robin Westman, 23, opened fire on Catholic school students attending morning Mass at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis, Wednesday morning. After the cowardly attack, Westman killed himself by a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
After the horrific shooting rampage, Frey made a point of deriding calls for prayer.
“Don’t say this is about ‘thoughts and prayers’ right now — these kids were literally praying,” he said during a press conference after the tragedy. “It was the first week of school – they were in a church.”
A spokesperson for Frey’s office defended the mayor’s comments in a statement to Fox News Digital: “The mayor has always said that thoughts and prayers alone are not enough. They must be paired with action and solutions. One doesn’t negate the other — but year after year, students are murdered by gun violence. Enough is enough. We must do more.”
Other Democrat notables have parroted the mayor’s messaging, such as Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D-FL), former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki (D.), and California Governor Gavin Newsom D.).
Some of the Dems, like Rosa DeLauro dismissed “thoughts and prayers” as “not enough” to stop gun violence and called for congressional action.
Others, like Newsom and Psaki, simply mocked prayer as a pointless endeavor.
“Prayer is not freaking enough. Prayers does not end school shootings. prayers do not make parents feel safe sending their kids to school. Prayer does not bring these kids back. Enough with the thoughts and prayers,” Psaki posted on X, Wednesday.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt reacted to the post during a White House Press briefing on Thursday: “I saw the comments of Ms. Psaki and frankly I think they’re incredibly insensitive and disrespectful to the tens of millions of Americans of faith across this country who believe in the power of prayer, who believe that prayer works.”
In response, Newsom posted on X: “These children were literally praying as they got shot at,” echoing the trans madman’s taunt scribbled on a magazine, “Where is your God now?”
Barron told Fox News that the Democrats were misunderstanding the purpose of prayer.
“Prayer is the raising of the mind and heart to God, which strikes me as altogether appropriate precisely at times of great pain,” he explained. “And prayer by no means stands in contrast to decisive moral action. Martin Luther King was a man of deep prayer, who also effected a social revolution in our country. This is not an either/or proposition.”
Barron, a popular Catholic prelate who has led the Diocese of Winona-Rochester since 2022, is the founder of the Catholic media organization “Word on Fire.” His insightful commentaries on faith and culture can be found on the Bishop’s YouTube channel.
He told Fox that the shooting should be recognized as a deliberate act of anti-Catholic violence.
“In the past seven years in our country, there has been a 700 percent increase in violent acts against Christians and Christian churches. Worldwide, Christianity is by far the most persecuted religion. That people are even wondering whether the tragedy in Minneapolis is an instance of anti-Catholic violence is puzzling to me,” he said.
“If someone attacked a synagogue while congregants were praying, would anyone doubt that it was an antisemitic act? If someone shot up a mosque while the devout were praying, would anyone doubt that it was an anti-Islamic attack? So, why would we even hesitate to say that a maniac shooting into a Catholic Church while children are at prayer was committing an anti-Catholic act?” the Bishop added.
The FBI is investigating the attack as both a possible act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime against Catholics, focusing on the anti-religious messages in his manifesto and weaponry.
According to a recent Family Research Council report, there were “at least 415 attacks against 383 churches in 43 states in 2024.”
Barron said he considered the two children slain during Mass to be “martyrs,” and described their deaths “as a tragic but powerful witness of faith.”
He acknowledged that the senseless attack on innocents raises deep questions about why God allows such evil, but pointed to Christ’s death on the cross the ultimate example of an innocent suffering.
“We know that God is all-good and all-powerful, and yet we also know that there are wicked people in the world who do terrible things. And so we must say that the just and merciful God permits some evils so as to bring about a good that we might not be able immediately to see. God is faithful in his love, but the ways of his providence are often inscrutable to us. We also know that, in Jesus, God journeyed all the way to the bottom of our suffering, accepting, as St. Paul said, ‘even death, death on a cross.’ We cannot always understand why God permits evil, but we know for sure that he accompanies us in our suffering,” he said.
4 comments:
The Dems are evil and unhinged from reality
Barron the Trumpeter clearly is a trying to score a political point. Prayers aren’t enough, there needs to be political action on gun control to stop future tragedies like this.
Thoughts and prayers are necessary, but without legislative action they are insufficient.
THAT is the message.
As stated: Pray as if everything depends on God. Work as if everything depends on you.
TJM is evil and unhinged from reality
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