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A woman sets a stuffed animal at a memorial outside of Annunciation Church, the site of a shooting that took place during a Mass for Catholic school children.

Michael W. Higgins is the Basilian Distinguished Fellow of Contemporary Catholic Thought at the University of Toronto’s St. Michael’s College.

Last week’s mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, with its unspeakable assault on the youngest and most vulnerable members of society, put me in mind of the student massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, 2012.

At the time, I was a vice-president at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, less than 20 miles away. I was sitting with several other senior administrators at a table in the main dining area of the university – a verit

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