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Charlie Kirk. Grok image.
By Lorraine V. Murray, National Catholic Register, September 21, 2025
Lorraine Murray is a religion columnist for The Georgia Bulletin, the archdiocesan newspaper of Atlanta. Her books include Confessions of an Ex-Feminist and The Abbess of Andalusia: Flannery O’Connor’s Spiritual Journey. She has also written three mysteries, Death in the Choir, Death of a Liturgist and Death Dons a Mask. Her website is www.lorrainevmurray.com
COMMENTARY: As Christians, we are called to model ourselves after Christ, who told us to love and pray for those who persecute us.
Like millions of other Americans, I was devastated to learn that Charlie Kirk had been killed while at a speaking engagement. Given his strong Christian beliefs, I wondered how he might have reacted had he survived the shooting. I envision him emphasizing that we are at war, but it is not a political battle between the political left and right, as many people think. Rather, we are at war with demons.
Conservative pundit Tucker Carlson once asked Kirk how the terrible circumstances in our country didn’t drive him crazy. Kirk did not hesitate: “For those of us who are Christians, it doesn’t drive us crazy. You actually see what’s going on, which is that we do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against principalities and darkness and spirits, that there is a spiritual war here.” …
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