Waltz left children to die
BY CATHOLIC ACTION LEAGUE
On August 27th, in a premeditated crime, a 23 year old, gender dysphoric man murdered two Catholic school children—ages eight and ten—and attempted to kill scores of their fellow students in a mass casualty shooting in Minneapolis.
In addition to the two fatalities, fifteen other children and three elderly adults were wounded by gunfire.
The assassin, armed with a rifle, a shotgun and a pistol, fired through the stained glass windows of the Church of the Annunciation during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
The children and their teachers were attending Mass for the opening of the academic year at Annunciation School.
Fatalities could have been much higher. Providentially, the doors of the church had been locked, denying the murderer easy access to his victims.
The perpetrator was Robert (aka Robin) Westman, 23, a graduate of the school, whose mother was a former parish secretary.
Before committing murder and suicide, Westman left an eleven minute video manifesto which included blasphemous messages, occult symbols—such pentagrams, inverted crosses and the number 666—a hand drawn representation of a demon who appears to conversing with Westman, and an image of the Holy Face of Our Savior, with a target on it.
Kash Patel, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, stated “The FBI is investigating this shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime targeting Catholics.”
Both the National Catholic Register and the Daily Wire are reporting that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a former public school teacher, rebuffed repeated requests to include non-public schools in a state funded school security program.
In 2019, during Walz’s first term as Governor, the Minnesota Legislature passed a Safe Schools Supplemental Aid bill, which included a $30 million appropriation for school security.
State funding for school safety was limited to only public school districts and to charter schools. Private and parochial schools were excluded.
In 2022, following a number of school shootings in other states, the Catholic bishops of Minnesota called upon Governor Tim Walz to summon a special session of the Legislature to expand the program to include non-public schools. Walz declined to do so.
In 2023, the Minnesota Catholic Conference wrote to Governor Walz, imploring him to act, and requesting him to support legislation to extend eligibility for safety funding to private and religious schools, which educate 72,000 students in the North Star State.
Despite bi-partisan support for the program extension, and a $17.6 billion budget surplus in the state treasury, Walz, again, declined to support public funding to protect Catholic school students.
He did sign an executive order however, making Minnesota a “trans refuge,” where “gender affirming care”—surgical mutilation and puberty blockers—is guaranteed for the “transitioning” of minors.
The Catholic Action League called Walz’s failure to protect Catholic school children “gross negligence, wilful malfeasance and culpable dereliction, rooted in special interest politics and visceral hostility to Catholic education.”
Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment:
“Catholics continually underestimate the level of malice in the government school industry towards the very existence of Catholic alternatives to the public education monopoly.
This animus originates in a toxic mixture of avarice and bigotry—the self interest of the teachers’ unions and the ideological intolerance of Christian hating, secular fundamentalists, like those found in the ACLU.
In Massachusetts, there have been repeated attempts to evade, repeal or circumscribe a law passed in 1936—when James Michael Curley was Governor—mandating that municipal school bus transportation be made available to both public and non-public school students.
For the absolutists of church/state separation, and for the vested interest monopolists of the teachers lobby, it is better to endanger the lives and safety of Catholic school children, walking to school in the winter morning twilight, than to expend public dollars for their safe conveyance to school.
Tim Walz’s callous failure to extend state protections to Annunciation School is inexcusable but unsurprising. He should be held accountable for his role in what might have been a preventable crime.”
GOVERNOR TIM WALZ REFUSED TO SUPPORT SECURITY FUNDING FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
On August 27th, in a premeditated crime, a 23 year old, gender dysphoric man murdered two Catholic school children—ages eight and ten—and attempted to kill scores of their fellow students in a mass casualty shooting in Minneapolis.
In addition to the two fatalities, fifteen other children and three elderly adults were wounded by gunfire.
The assassin, armed with a rifle, a shotgun and a pistol, fired through the stained glass windows of the Church of the Annunciation during the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
The children and their teachers were attending Mass for the opening of the academic year at Annunciation School.
Fatalities could have been much higher. Providentially, the doors of the church had been locked, denying the murderer easy access to his victims.
The perpetrator was Robert (aka Robin) Westman, 23, a graduate of the school, whose mother was a former parish secretary.
Before committing murder and suicide, Westman left an eleven minute video manifesto which included blasphemous messages, occult symbols—such pentagrams, inverted crosses and the number 666—a hand drawn representation of a demon who appears to conversing with Westman, and an image of the Holy Face of Our Savior, with a target on it.
Kash Patel, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, stated “The FBI is investigating this shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and a hate crime targeting Catholics.”
Both the National Catholic Register and the Daily Wire are reporting that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a former public school teacher, rebuffed repeated requests to include non-public schools in a state funded school security program.
In 2019, during Walz’s first term as Governor, the Minnesota Legislature passed a Safe Schools Supplemental Aid bill, which included a $30 million appropriation for school security.
State funding for school safety was limited to only public school districts and to charter schools. Private and parochial schools were excluded.
In 2022, following a number of school shootings in other states, the Catholic bishops of Minnesota called upon Governor Tim Walz to summon a special session of the Legislature to expand the program to include non-public schools. Walz declined to do so.
In 2023, the Minnesota Catholic Conference wrote to Governor Walz, imploring him to act, and requesting him to support legislation to extend eligibility for safety funding to private and religious schools, which educate 72,000 students in the North Star State.
Despite bi-partisan support for the program extension, and a $17.6 billion budget surplus in the state treasury, Walz, again, declined to support public funding to protect Catholic school students.
He did sign an executive order however, making Minnesota a “trans refuge,” where “gender affirming care”—surgical mutilation and puberty blockers—is guaranteed for the “transitioning” of minors.
The Catholic Action League called Walz’s failure to protect Catholic school children “gross negligence, wilful malfeasance and culpable dereliction, rooted in special interest politics and visceral hostility to Catholic education.”
Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comment:
“Catholics continually underestimate the level of malice in the government school industry towards the very existence of Catholic alternatives to the public education monopoly.
This animus originates in a toxic mixture of avarice and bigotry—the self interest of the teachers’ unions and the ideological intolerance of Christian hating, secular fundamentalists, like those found in the ACLU.
In Massachusetts, there have been repeated attempts to evade, repeal or circumscribe a law passed in 1936—when James Michael Curley was Governor—mandating that municipal school bus transportation be made available to both public and non-public school students.
For the absolutists of church/state separation, and for the vested interest monopolists of the teachers lobby, it is better to endanger the lives and safety of Catholic school children, walking to school in the winter morning twilight, than to expend public dollars for their safe conveyance to school.
Tim Walz’s callous failure to extend state protections to Annunciation School is inexcusable but unsurprising. He should be held accountable for his role in what might have been a preventable crime.”
