{"id":9453,"date":"2025-09-03T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=9453"},"modified":"2025-09-06T01:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T01:21:12","slug":"murder-at-mass-and-a-cartoon-characters-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/murder-at-mass-and-a-cartoon-characters-insight\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder at Mass: and a Cartoon Character’s Insight"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Remembering August 27, 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

One week ago today, in my state’s largest urban area, someone went to the Church of the Annunciation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then he killed two children who were celebrating Mass, wounded several other folks, and finally killed himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He’s still dead, and so are those two kids. But, happily, it looks like the folks who were wounded will live: with varying degrees of lasting consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

News coverage has, predictably, shifted to giving politicos and hotheads opportunities for expressing outrage: and explaining why everybody should agree with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s a refreshing lack of focus on the killer: which lets me hope that a smidgen of common sense may be filtering into America’s news media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What little I’ve seen reminded me of something from an old movie:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“…You know, sometimes I don’t think she’s really very happy.”
(Fauna, in “Sleeping Beauty<\/a>” , Walt Disney Productions (1959), from a discussion of Maleficent<\/a> (Fandom))<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, crime scene tape has been taken down around the Church of the Annunciation, and parishioners are celebrating Mass again. I’ll probably be mentioning that on Saturday. I don’t like thinking about how those folks are feeling just now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More-or-less-related stuff:<\/p>\n\n\n\n