We don’t support what happened to Charlie Kirk

 

"We mourn the tragic deaths of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, and the grievous injuries sustained by Sen. John Hoffman and his wife Yvette," Father Whalen said in a statement posted June 14 on the parish website. "Our parish community feels deeply this loss and we offer our prayerful support and condolences to the Hortman and Hoffman families."

 

We don’t support what happened to Charlie Kirk but sadly; Charlie Kirk supported what happened to Charlie Kirk. You don’t have to mourn Charlie Kirk to feel uneasy today. His death brings real fear about what comes next — how those in power will seize on this moment to justify even more authoritarian control.

Father Joseph Whalen, pastor of St. Timothy, said the Hortman family had been part of the parish community and Melissa Hortman at one point had volunteered in the children’s faith formation program.