Question of Faith

What is a Christian Response to the Buffalo Shooting?

May 17, 2022 Fr. Damian Ference and Mike Hayes Season 1 Episode 23
Question of Faith
What is a Christian Response to the Buffalo Shooting?
Show Notes

Fr Damian and Mike discuss the Shooting incident in Buffalo.

Editor's note:  Mike served as a Campus Minister in Buffalo for 11 years before coming to Cleveland.

Run Down:
1:00:  Mike discusses knowing the location well.

1:30:  Our initial reactions to the incident.

2:05:  The Onion's satirical take on shootings? 

2:20:  A shooting also in a California Church also happened over the weekend.  Pray for them.

2:50 -  7:20:  How did we respond?

7:20:  Shooter was there before.   

8:00-9:30:  Gunman targeted an African-American neighborhood. 

9:30:  Senseless violence. 

9:45:  Authorities found links to the Great Replacement Theory.

11:20:   Sin and the attempt to rationalize behavior.

12:30:  What will the shooter say on the stand?

12:45:   What will we say about this as Christians?

13:00  USCCB's Journeying Together Process.

14:55:   Statements from the Bishop of Buffalo, the USCCB, and Bishop Malesic of Cleveland on the shooting.

16:15:  Church Search:  St. Adalbert in Cleveland.
America Media's story on St. Adalbert.

17:15  Gospel reading for the 6th Sunday of Easter.