What We’re Learning About the Minneapolis Shooter

Yesterday morning, a shooter opened fire on the Annunciation Catholic School’s first mass of the school year in Minneapolis. It is an unspeakable evil. We need to continue in the nation's effort to pray for the victims in the hospital, the fellow students, and the families who lost a child.

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