“Prayer Doesn’t Absolve Us”: Minneapolis Archbishop Calls for Action to Stop Gun Violence

fter the Annunciation school shooting, Minneapolis’s archbishop says “thoughts and prayers” must become laws and mental-health care.

Minneapolis-St. Paul Archbishop Bernard Hebda didn’t mince words: prayer is critical, but it’s not a hall pass for political inaction.

In the aftermath of Wednesday’s massacre at his archdiocese’s Annunciation Catholic School, Hebda insisted that prayer “doesn’t absolve us” from taking steps to prevent the next one, urging his community to confront both…