Archbishop calls for us to ‘reach out’ in wake of tragedy
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Milwaukee’s archbishop is asking today for people to reach out in his call for peace after the deadly shootings at the Sikh temple.
“It’s probably a call for all of us,” said Archbishop Jerome Listecki.
He told Newsradio 620 WTMJ’s Jay Sorgi that there’s no one of any God-fearing faith who would ever condone what happened at the Sikh Temple.
“No person of religious values, Christian, Sikh, Muslim or Jew in any way would condone actions like this,” explained Listecki.
“None of us are free from evil in the world. There is evil. Individuals have free choice. Hopefully, they’re guided by the sense of devotion to God and justice, but we know that evil touches the lives of every community, sometimes in very tragic ways.”
The Archbishop explains that people have to respond to evil by reaching out in understanding, especially across religious lines.
“The whole sense of being able to walk in another man’s shoes…reach out to our brothers and sisters and understand those values, and how valuable that call for peace is…that emphasizes all the more importance of us paying attention to what God wants from us in this life.”
He says that response can range from peacefully reaching across religious lines, or even the lifesaving actions of people caught in tragedies like Oak Creek and the Aurora, Colo. shootings.
“We’ve seen individuals willing to sacrifice their lives, protecting. as in the case of the police officer who was so courageous to do what he did to protect the Sikh community, so many who threw their bodies over loved ones in Aurora,” marked Listecki.
“These are acts of heroism.”
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We are victims of about of control gun culture here in the United States. May God forgive us for allowing guns to be as available as there are here.
When are we going to see the need for greater gun control in our country? As I recall the early Christians were pacifists.
Pacifists depend on those who are not pacifists to protect them. We are called not to be pacifists but to protect the innocent. Pacifism has no place in a Christian worldview. The cities with the strictest gun control laws (i.e., D.C., Chicago, etc.) have high murder rates. Under gun control, the law abiding would have no weapons and would be sitting ducks for the criminals with guns. That’s why they are criminals – they disobey the laws and would procure weapons illegally.
It might be that the guns are purchased in other States. In Canada we have gun control laws which still need to be strengthened but some of the guns (I am saying only some) can be traced back to our neighbours in the United States of America.