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President Donald Trump supporters breach the U.S. Capitol in Washington Jan. 6, 2021. (CNS photo/Reuters/Leah Millis)
Just days after the siege on the U.S. Capitol, several bishops, priests and deacons across the country used their pulpits during Jan. 9-10 weekend Masses in cathedrals, parishes and converted outdoor worship spaces, due to the pandemic, to address what happened in Washington and how people of faith should respond.
The messages primarily received positive feedback, but they also were criticized.
Some of the priests who shared their homilies with Catholic News Service stressed they were not pointing the finger at those who participated in or instigated the riot but were encouraging parishioners, and themselves, to take a careful and critical look at how this happened and what it means going forward.
(RNS) Tea Krulos was introduced to conspiracy theories on TV shows like “The X-Files,” popular in the 1990s.
It all seemed to him like fun and games, or aliens and shadowy government figures, until the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
That’s when conspiracy theorists convinced the shooting had been faked by the government to strip Americans of their Second Amendment rights began harassing the grieving families of 26 murdered children and school staff. And it’s when Krulos realized how deep and dark conspiracies could become.
“It’s just so crazy to think about how much this has changed in the last 10 years or even in the last five years or even in the last year. It’s just been progressively building more and more steam,” he said.