SALT LAKE CITY — As the community grapples with Charlie Kirk’s assassination , some have turned to religion for answers and healing.

At the Cathedral of the Madeleine, mass was full on Sunday evening.

Father John Evans, the Vicar General for the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City said it was a slight increase to their usual crowd, but what surprised him was what happened during the week.

“People were coming together before Sunday,” Evans said. “Praying privately, some in groups, praying the rosary, and different prayers of different sorts.”

A not-to-unfamiliar sight — 24 years ago, the first weekend following 9/11, people gathered at churches across the nation.

Gallup Polls from 2001 showed a six percent increase in church attendance.

“The uncertainty of that kind of violence to

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