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Truth Cannot Be Killed: A Tribute to Charlie Kirk, by Jayd Henricks – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Image Credit. Charlie Kirk/YouTube

By Jayd Henricks, The Catholic Thing, Sept. 12, 2025

Jayd Henricks is the President of Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal and the former Executive Director of Government Relations at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Note: I am in Utah, “on vacation,” and passed by Orem, the site where Charlie Kirk was murdered, the day prior to the event. All decent people, of course, deplore this horror, and we must do all we can in our personal lives and in our interactions with others – as Charlie did himself – to work tirelessly against every form of political violence.  In today’s column, our friend Jayd Henricks reminds us of some crucial realities that should be in our minds and hearts now and in the coming weeks and months. Pray for the repose of Charlie’s soul – and pray also for God’s mercy and graces on our deeply troubled nation. – Robert Royal

 

The assassination of Charlie Kirk was not just the killing of a brilliant young mind, a husband, and a father; it was an attempt to kill the truth. It was an attempt to kill a movement of young adults engaging in public discourse about the essential truths of humanity. And it was an attempt to kill civility.

This is not to say that everything Charlie said was true; I don’t think that is the case for any of us. But Charlie Kirk engaged the arena of ideas more courageously, more robustly, more civilly, and with more faith than just about anyone in the public square today, which is why he had such a following among the youth. He was different.

He did not, as far as I could tell, use the inflammatory language so common in today’s public discourse. He was obviously a staunch conservative and a man of genuine faith, with firm convictions and a preternatural gift for debate, all of which got him killed. But his conservativism was not ideological or partisan. It came from conviction, well-reasoned conviction. …

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