Comfortable Catholicism Must End

[Michie]

I knew very little about Charlie Kirk. His face popped up in my YouTube feed from time-to-time. On those occasions, I saw that he engaged with young people on a wide variety of issues. I was sitting by a creek in the shadow of the Beartooth Mountains near Red Lodge, Montana when I saw he had been murdered on a college campus. I was in Montana because my mother had survived a massive heart attack a few days prior. My family and I were taking a moment of rest in God’s creation after a very difficult year. The news stunned me and filled me with great sorrow.

In light of his assassination and the shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church and School in Minneapolis, it’s become clear that things are changing. The dark forces many of us have known are at work in the culture are spilling over into the lives of everyday Catholics and people of goodwill. It is starting to cost more to be Catholic in this country with each passing day. The martyrdom of two young school children at prayer is a small glimpse of what our brothers and sisters in Christ live each day around the world in places like Nigeria and Congo.

Even though I knew very little about Charlie Kirk until a week ago, I was shocked like so many to see a father of two young children and a husband to his loving wife executed in front of them. To know that this rather ordinary, traditional family is a target. I think many people get the sense that we too are the target of demonic forces and their allies at work within the culture.

Continued below.

Comfortable Catholicism Must End

I knew very little about Charlie Kirk. His face popped up in my YouTube feed from time-to-time. On those occasions, I saw that he engaged with young people on a wide variety of issues. I was sitting by a creek in the shadow of the Beartooth Mountains near Red Lodge, Montana when I saw he […]

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[chevyontheriver]

I knew very little about Charlie Kirk. His face popped up in my YouTube feed from time-to-time. On those occasions, I saw that he engaged with young people on a wide variety of issues. I was sitting by a creek in the shadow of the Beartooth Mountains near Red Lodge, Montana when I saw he had been murdered on a college campus. I was in Montana because my mother had survived a massive heart attack a few days prior. My family and I were taking a moment of rest in God’s creation after a very difficult year. The news stunned me and filled me with great sorrow.

In light of his assassination and the shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church and School in Minneapolis, it’s become clear that things are changing. The dark forces many of us have known are at work in the culture are spilling over into the lives of everyday Catholics and people of goodwill. It is starting to cost more to be Catholic in this country with each passing day. The martyrdom of two young school children at prayer is a small glimpse of what our brothers and sisters in Christ live each day around the world in places like Nigeria and Congo.

Even though I knew very little about Charlie Kirk until a week ago, I was shocked like so many to see a father of two young children and a husband to his loving wife executed in front of them. To know that this rather ordinary, traditional family is a target. I think many people get the sense that we too are the target of demonic forces and their allies at work within the culture.

Continued below.

Comfortable Catholicism Must End

I knew very little about Charlie Kirk. His face popped up in my YouTube feed from time-to-time. On those occasions, I saw that he engaged with young people on a wide variety of issues. I was sitting by a creek in the shadow of the Beartooth Mountains near Red Lodge, Montana when I saw he […]

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