Well, it's been a hell of a ride, laying rubber all over the road for the past decade. But it's time to call it a day and park the Rogue in the garage. Effective today, I am shutting down my blog to focus my attention on other endeavours. My thanks to the more than 2.7 million people who regularly joined me on these sojourns through news stories over the years that dealt with the places with issues of religion and faith intersecting with public affairs. May God bless you with a continuing desire to learn about and help disseminate the issues of faith throughout the public square. Happy trails in your continuing travels! Fr. Tim Moyle, p.p. Diocese of Pembroke
Reflections from the pastoral ministry of an Evangelical Catholic Priest.
We always need someone to blame in any crisis, it's a normal human reaction. In a horrific tragedy such as this one and where the killer is also dead there is no living being to blame. The first place God is ‘at times like these’ is precisely there - the place of blame - He knows our needs.
ReplyDeleteIf we watch closely in the days to come in the aftermath it will become obvious where He is and has been through it all.
People like Etty Hellisum in the Nazi prison camps and people like the teacher in this awful massacre who sacrificed her life to save the children give some clues to answer this question.