Murder at Mass: Pope is joined to the “pain and horror of this absurd violence”

The Islamic State is claiming responsibility for a cowardly slaughter of an 864 year-old priest who was celebrating a morning Mass in a church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, Normandy. Entering through the rear door of the church, two men yelled allegiance to Daesh (ISIS) and commenced their attack. Abbe Jacques Hamel, born in 1930 in Darnétal and Read More…