Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and this is the Century Presents September 12th today.

Yesterday was the 24th year, 24th anniversary of commemorating the terrorist attack on the United States

of America on September 11th, obviously the day before also had tragedy in Colorado with the

school shooting as well as the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Two weeks before that, also more tragedy here in Minnesota

with the shooting at Annunciation Catholic Elementary School,

as well as, I mean, just there's so much violence,

not just in this country, not just in the state,

not just there's so much suffering in this world.

I hope, I hope that we look at the Twin Towers being attacked and say,

that was wrong. I hope that we look at any school shooting and say, that is wrong, like horribly

wrong, evil. I've just seen people in the last 48 hours, though, go online saying, we're not so

sure if this is wrong. Why am I talking about this? And here's the criticism. The criticism is like, Father Mike, why are you getting political? I'm not. I'm getting cultural. Also, Father Mike, there's a lot of devastating things going on. Why are you not bothered by them? I am bothered by them. Why are you talking about Charlie Kirk? Here's why. Not only because here's an innocent man who is now dead. Why? Because you went to college campuses and talked to students and professors

and anyone who was willing to talk with him. That's a problem. But secondly, because it marks

something in our society. I've heard people talk since then about like the shootings

and about stabbings and about the murder of Charlie Kirk and whatnot. And even about about violence, any kind of violence. And people say like, some people are just sick. They'll say that. They'll say that. Some people are just sick. And now I'll say this. I don't know about the mental health of any of the people who are the aggressors here. I don't, I don't know that. So I'm not I can't weigh in on that and I would not weigh in on that.

There are such a thing as mental illness,

and there are some things that like, yes, though this is the result of some kind of untreated

mental sickness. That could be real. But I think just to say, this is the result of that person's

sick. I think that's incorrect. I think it's wrong. Here's what I believe. I believe this. I believe that world these matter. I believe that what we believe about the world, about ourselves, about the world, I believe that matters. Now, here's what I believe about the world. I believe that God exists. That God is good and that God made this world good. He made human beings in his image and likeness. He made us good. But because he made us for love, he made us free. Because without freedom, we couldn't actually choose to love. But with that freedom, we can also choose to not love. And so that's what we did. We chose sin. And that choice broke the world. It broke a relation with God, work a relation with each other, and even broke our own hearts. And so this is important for us. So in that sense, yes, it's sickness. We're all sick. In that sense, the people are saying, these are the actions of a sick individual, you are correct in the sense that we are

all sick individuals. We all have that same brokenness now at varying degrees, but much of it

comes down to worldview. What do I mean? Okay, now keep this mind. Our worldview matters,

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