
While Religion Protects our Soul, Guns Can Protect our Ability to Worship
Forty two years in journalism made me a compulsive note taker.
I take notes when I’m on the phone, sometimes when I’m watching TV and any time I’m at a public meeting.
About the only place I don’t take notes is in church. Pity, too, because I wish I could tell you exactly what Fr. Steve DeLeon told Star of the Sea parishioners in Virginia Beach on the first weekend of December.
During his homily the priest surprised the congregation when he announced that he’d hired a moonlighting police officer to guard the church during services. In fact, the uniformed officer was posted in the lobby at that very moment.
Heads spun around to the back of the church.
I hadn’t noticed the cop when I slunk in, late - as usual - for the 8 a.m. Mass. But on the way out there he was, holding open the door