St. Joseph's Oratory stabbing: 'People will come to pray for Father Grou'

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The church of St. Brother Andre. How sad. Satan is stepping up his game.
 
Yes but hopefully it will bring Catholics together in prayer.
 
This is terrible 😥
I will certainly pray for the injured priest, and for the suspect. Shame when we cannot feel safe at St. Joseph’s own church.
 
Just watched the full video on YouTube and I think the security guards in this church need to be IN the church and when someone pulls out a knife and steps foot in the sanctuary during Mass, the guards should be right there taking him down. One lady said she ran screaming to alert the guard. WHERE was the guard that she needed to go someplace else and alert him? He needs to be right there, and if anybody heads for the sanctuary during Mass who isn’t scheduled to be there then that person needs to be stopped immediately.
 
I agree. There is also a debate about having a metal detector at the entrance which seems like an extreme measure in Canada.
 
St Patrick’s in NYC does not have metal detectors, but it has a lot of ushers and I suspect plainclothes security to deal with the occasional protester, mentally ill person etc. I feel confident that such a person would not make it into the sanctuary. Most urban cathedrals I have been in also have a uniformed guard right in the church worship space, granted he may be closer to the front door than the sanctuary, but I have seen them move closer to the sanctuary when Mass is in progress.

I suspect this was just not expected in Canada and took people by surprise.
 
This is a good idea, plainclothes security. I am sure there would be no shortage of Catholics who work security jobs in Montreal. Yes very much caught all of Canada by surprise, and police are investigating the attacker’s motives.
 
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