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

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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