Something to think about:

I don’t know anything more than anyone else about the shooting in Connecticut at the moment, but it seems fairly obvious that there was no one at or near the school who could have tried to fight back.

Fight back? Now there’s an idea.

She fainted, hit her head.

News Alert
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The State Department said Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who skipped an overseas trip this past week because of a stomach virus, sustained a concussion after fainting.

She’s now recovering at home and being monitored by doctors.

Congressional aides said they didn’t [don’t] expect her to testify as scheduled at congressional hearings on Thursday into the Sept. 11 attack against a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya. [italics added]

I’m suspicious.

. . . at Ascension Parish, Oak Park, where someone stood and objected.

The pastor in the bulletin, pages 2 & 3:

Please be assured that the incident at Mass last Sunday is being well taken care of pastorally and legally both for our Parish Family and for the family involved.

We have contacted a number of resources asking for their wisdom and advice in handling such a situation if it occurs again Hopefully, as a Parish Family, we will not have to deal with this again.

I know I don’t have to say this as 99% of you know it already, if you don’t like what is being said from the pulpit, please come and talk with the preacher after Mass and a private appointment will be set up. If I am not the one being rightfully challenged, I am willing to sit in on such a discussion.

I do understand that you may need to leave Mass because of what is being said but still hope that you will come and talk about it. I thank you all for your cooperation in this matter; God bless us all

“A” for straightforwardness, I don’t know what for willingness to see people walk out on a sermon, which in this case reportedly dealt with political issues.

Interesting, to say the least, if only in its reference to “a number of resources asking for their wisdom and advice in handling such a situation if it occurs again.” That’s tantalizing.

A religious perspective on the Connecticut killings:

What the killer(s) did today was nothing less than a contemporary sacrifice to Moloch, in whatever form Moloch manifests himself today—the appeasement of a voice in the head, most likely. Evil, even if it is loosed due to mental illness, is an effort to destroy the common good by making good appear powerless, ineffectual, weak. Today saw a horrifically effective effort to give evil a victory. It has opened a portal and brought Hell to earth.

Screwtape would report a job well done.