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Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann: My Father Was Murdered Too. I Pray Charlie Kirk’s Family Finds the Grace I Found – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann: My Father Was Murdered Too. I Pray Charlie Kirk’s Family Finds the Grace I Found

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By Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann, National Catholic Register, September 18, 2025

Archbishop Joseph Fred Naumann is archbishop emeritus of Kansas City, Kansas.

COMMENTARY: How God uses tragedy, even evil, for good is the great mystery of our faith, but that is what we believe.

The shocking event of last week’s assassination of Charlie Kirk has left a country in shock and two young children without a father.

I cannot imagine the pain of Charlie’s widow, Erika, but I feel a special closeness to her and her family. My father Fred was murdered before I was born. I never met him but I got to know him through my mother, through his friends, and, I believe, through his supernatural presence in my life. Charlie’s children are now, tragically, on a similar path.

The absence of a father can probably not be fully appreciated in this life. So many memories and experiences were denied by his death, and yet I am grateful to know that my dad was a man of virtue, of faith, and of deep love. I did not experience these things directly, but I experienced all of them through the relationships my dad left behind. …

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