After a shooting at a Catholic school in Minnesota , the Diocese of Pittsburgh offered prayers to the archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, who was born in the city and spent several years serving at churches across western Pennsylvania.

Annunciation Catholic School, where two young children were killed and 17 others were injured when a shooter opened fire during Mass, is part of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, led by Bernard Hebda.

The Diocese of Pittsburgh said the shooting touches its church "in a particular way," calling Hebda a "native son."

"Archbishop Hebda, who is the bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, is a Pittsburgher, so our prayers go out to him as well as he shepherds his people through this tragic event," Pittsburgh Bishop Mark

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