Stika urges unity at Mass for murdered servicemen

After five US servicemen were killed in a domestic terrorist attack in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Bishop Richard Stika travelled to the city to say Mass at the Basilica of Sts Peter and Paul, writes Michael Sean Winters.

“Don’t allow anger to destroy you; if we allow anger to creep into our hearts, or revenge, then we become tainted by the same thing we’re angry with,” Bishop Stika, pictured left, said in his homily. “Do constructive things, build unity with different cultures, faith traditions, languages.”

The attack on the servicemen, at a recuitment centre, was perpetrated by a Kuwaiti-born US citizen, Mohammed Abdulazeez.

n Pope Francis named three new auxiliary bishops to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, among them Fr Robert E. Barron, founder of the multimedia “Word on Fire Catholic Ministries”.