US EditionLocal Organization Calls for Gun Safety Following Catholic School Shooting in Minneapolis
Vice President JD Vance met with victims and families of the Minneapolis school shooting, urging prayer and legislative action to counter violent extremism and hateful online content.
- On Aug. 27, 2025, a gunman attacked during a school Mass at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, killing Harper Moyski, 10, and Fletcher Merkel, 8, and wounding 18 others.
- The Anti-Defamation League reported that the ADL documented hateful messages targeting multiple groups and linked violent online forums to accelerated radicalization in recent late-2024 and early-2025 school shooters.
- Local and federal investigators say authorities identified the suspect as 23-year-old Robin Westman, and FBI Director Kash Patel classified the shooting as domestic terrorism and a hate crime targeting Catholics.
- This past week, Vice President JD Vance urged prayer for Lydia Kaiser, saying `If you're the praying type, say a prayer for this innocent girl who's actually in surgery right now, that the swelling will go down, that she will be OK`; fundraising has raised over $900,000 for Sophia Forchas and nearly $350,000 for Kaiser.
- Advocates are urging lawmakers to promote Extreme Risk Protection Order laws, stronger internet-safety regulations, and outreach to 16,000 school superintendents to limit extremist content access.
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Michael Reagan: Too many guns is not our biggest problem
The liberal media and Democrats reacted in their usual kneejerk way to the shootings at a Catholic school in Minneapolis. They didn’t pin the blame on the monster who took the lives of two school children and wounded 17 others, including 14 kids, as they attended a Mass on the first day of classes. They didn’t blame the shooting on the killer’s mental health, extreme anger at the world or his anti-semitism and love of Hitler and Timothy McVeigh.…
Salonen: With the Catholic school shooting, let’s look back first
On the morning of Aug. 27, I was in Menasha, Wisconsin, preparing for an evening book presentation for area faithful. My co-presenter and I had just enjoyed a delicious breakfast at the Weathervane restaurant and were heading back to the retreat house where we’d been staying. Just ahead of our dropoff point, a line of Catholic elementary-school students who’d just begun their second day of school were making their way to their newly renovated pl…
Letter: Limit access to dangerous weapons
I am a Rochester Franciscan sister, one of many who spent years teaching children in parish schools like Annunciation School, where the lives of children and families were forever changed in that brutal shooting last week. Our broken hearts go out to the teachers and parents of those children, and to everyone who witnessed that terrible act. We do not forget the recent deaths of former speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, Melissa H…
In Minneapolis, ingrained hatreds rise again to violence
The first comment I heard after the attack on Catholic schoolchildren in Minneapolis last week was from the city’s mayor, Jacob Frey, who said: “Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers just now. These kids were literally praying.”
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