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The funeral for Fletcher Merkel, who died in the shooting Aug. 27 at Annunciation’s church in Minneapolis, is 4 p.m. Sept. 7 at Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, per an obituary published by the Minnesota Star Tribune.
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Abortion -- an act performed with the sole or primary intent of ending human life in the womb -- is never medically necessary, according to medical doctors and Catholic experts on the issue.
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Abortion -- an act performed with the sole or primary intent of ending human life in the womb -- is never medically necessary, according to medical doctors and Catholic experts on the issue.
- Dave Hrbacek
The funeral for Fletcher Merkel, who died in the shooting Aug. 27 at Annunciation’s church in Minneapolis, is 4 p.m. Sept. 7 at Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, per an obituary published by the Minnesota Star Tribune.
- Josh McGovern
Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, visited at Annunciation church in Minneapolis Sept. 3 and laid flowers at the temporary memorial where two children were killed and 21 other people were injured in an Aug. 27 shooting.
- Joe Ruff
Blessing her forehead and both hands with holy water from Lourdes, France, as she lay unconscious in a hospital bed in Minneapolis, Bishop Michael Izen prayed for 12-year-old Sophia Forchas, left in critical condition with head injuries when bullets tore through Annunciation’s church in Minneapolis one week before.
- Joe Ruff
Safety and prayer were top of mind as the school year began in the wake of a shooting that killed two students and wounded more than a dozen others at an Aug. 27 all-school Mass at Annunciation church in Minneapolis.
- Joe Ruff
Recalling the fear and the cries from students, parents and school staff to “get low, stay down, stay down, don’t get up” as bullets tore through Annunciation church at an all-school Mass in Minneapolis, Father Denniz Zehren, the pastor, said it marked a new beginning.
- Josh McGovern
The faithful followed the sound of bagpipes playing “Amazing Grace” as they headed to Mass at Annunciation school in Minneapolis Aug. 31. They came from all directions; some walked by boarded-up stained glass windows that were shattered at the parish church next door, when a gunman opened fire on an all-school Mass the morning of Aug. 27. The shooter killed two students — 8-year-old Fletcher Merkel and 10-year-old Harper Moyski — and wounded 15 other students and three adults at the elementary school.
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Pope Leo XIV, praying publicly for the victims of the school shooting in Minneapolis, also prayed for an end to the "pandemic" of gun violence.
- Joe Ruff
Sean and Mallory O’Brien gently guided their four young children through the first parish Mass at Annunciation in Minneapolis since an Aug. 27 church shooting at an all-school Mass shattered the community.
- Joe Ruff
For the first time since the Aug. 27 attack by a gunman who killed two children and wounded 18 more at an all-school Mass where he was presiding, Father Dennis Zehren publicly described his attempt to save the children.
- Joe Ruff
Jewish, Muslim, Greek Orthodox and Maronite Catholic faith leaders joined Archbishop Bernard Hebda and Bishops Michael Izen and Kevin Kenney for an interfaith prayer service Aug. 28 at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis.
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- The Catholic Spirit
Limbo is a game based on traditions that began on the island of Trinidad. The goal of the game is to pass under a horizontal bar (known as the limbo bar) as it is lowered. Contestants must bend backward and allow no part of their body to touch the bar while only their feet can touch the floor or ground. Sometimes, people will chant “how low can you go!” as the bar is lowered bit by bit. Fun fact, the world record for the lowest limbo bar height is 6 inches, set by Dennis Walston in 1991. Ha! He must have been really flexible and really skinny! How low can you go?
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Many rosary devotees may ponder the grace of a happy death — one of my favorite reflections is the fourth glorious mystery — the Assumption of Mary. Just a couple of weeks ago we celebrated that Church dogma as a holy day of obligation. And just a week after that came the Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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