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By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D., Catholic World Report, Nov. 4, 2023

John M. Grondelski (Ph.D., Fordham) was former associate dean of the School of Theology, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. He publishes regularly in the National Catholic Register and in theological journals. All views expressed herein are exclusively his own.

 

Texas counted the unborn Carlin Holcombe as a victim of the November 5, 2017, mass shooting at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. Under Ohio’s Issue One, would Carlin be a victim?

Do you remember Sutherland Springs?

Maybe not. We’ve grown so inured to atrocities that a six-year-old mass shooting probably long ago receded out of most people’s memories—if they don’t live in its vicinity.

To recap: six years ago, on Sunday, November 5, 2017, a man entered the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, shooting and wounding 22 people, shooting and killing 26 people.

Or was it 25? …

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