When I was notified of Charlie Kirk’s murder I was at my fulltime job, working on aircraft jet engines. In this type of job, it is very easy for me to zone out and focus on the task set before me. On September 10, 2025, I could not. As I was working to provide for my family, on a relatively secure site, another man was working in an apparently unsecure site, not only to provide for his family but to provide for a nation. Over a thousand miles from where I was a killer’s bullet took this man’s life. After I learned of Charlie’s murder I was filled with an intense rage. I could no longer focus on bolts, clamps and pressure tubes. My feelings of rage and sadness vacillated, with the thoughts of Holy Adoration and hunting the animal that took the life of a great man. I found myself pacing around not knowing how to handle these feelings. I still fully cannot understand them. I can really only write about them.
Although I didn’t know much about Charlie before his life was taken, I am now very aware of the impact he had on this nation. He was the bedrock of a strong and growing conservative movement and the new dynamic of the Republican party. He was the voice that young people needed in a time of immense confusion. Every video I have seen of Charlie debating or speaking the truth on a podcast has impressed me. He spoke clearly, truthfully, and many times in dangerous situations, as was proven on that tragic day at 12:23pm.
I never intended for this blog channel to “get political” or encourage one political party in particular. This is because I believe the truth of the Catholic church is beyond political parties. My goal was to have a very balanced approach to ideas that the Catholic church has expressed throughout her beautiful history. Ideas that secured the fabric of humanity and have kept us on track. Things like the truth of Scripture, virtue and most importantly the Most Holy Eucharist, which is the lifeline of the world, have guided the world towards Jesus Christ despite the horrors we do to each other.
However, after Sept. 10th, there is no more balance. There is only Truth. The truth of which Charlie spoke, the truth of God and the truth that there is only one political party, or at the very least a subset of a political party, in America right now which succumbs to extreme violence. Why? Because they don’t have the Truth. Without the Truth, you have falsehood, which is rooted in the Father of lies. These demonic ideas, such as transgender ideology, critical race theory, hatred for family and children, and hatred for America, are the fabric of far-left extremism.
This blog cannot any longer be only about abstract beautiful ideas, but must also speak on how those ideas inform our political and cultural action in the midst of such extreme hatred. Charlie spoke of ideas that have their foundation in the very same things the Catholic church has preached throughout the centuries. Love for family, country, neighbors and all the dimensions of what it means to be pro-life from conception to natural death are all supremely Catholic beliefs.
Perhaps the greatest ideal that Charlie taught and ultimately died for was the freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is not merely something found in the Constitution of the United States. It is a critical dimension of the human soul, assuming that speech is genuine communication between two human beings. Why? Because speech is directly connected to the truth, in that speech allows the logos to be heard. All truth that is spoken concretely has its origin in God, who is eternal peace. Charlie knew this and lived by this ideal on college campuses, podcasts, interviews etc. He spoke openly and with anyone so that those ideas do not turn into violence. We might be tempted to think that violence silenced him but, on the contrary, he is speaking the truth stronger and louder than ever. The folly of our enemies is that they thought violence can overpower spoken truth. It cannot. It will never.
There are some that say now is a time for peace and unity among neighbors across different viewpoints. On the one hand there is truth in making peace and loving our neighbors more than we have before. On the other hand, there is a very real call for spiritual warfare, which requires us to not make peace with the Devil. Now is the time for holy action, holy words, and holy prayers. It is my belief that Catholics found a friend in Charlie. That friend was taken by the Devil. As Catholics we have incredible access to a heavenly army with weapons far stronger than ICBMs and faster than hypersonic cruise missiles. As Catholics, let us access them immediately! A holy war has descended upon us. May we use our nuclear triad of prayer, fasting and almsgiving to lay waste to our enemy.
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