Like so many others, I have spent the last few hours caught in a spiral of sadness, anger, and unanswered questions. The murder of Charlie Kirk has taken a piece of us all. And from that pit of despair, the troglodyte left has once again come to rouse us — justifying the murder, subtly or brazenly, spewing the most atrocious hatred across social media, mocking the victim, even dancing to celebrate the tragedy. I know well how strong the temptation is to answer hatred with more hatred. But it is as great as it is futile — and as futile as it is destructive. Evil can only be drowned in an abundance of good. (RELATED: Charlie Kirk Must Now Be Made Immortal)
For me personally, this moment has been a chance to reflect on something the left ignores: good exists, evil exists, and we are made of both.
For me personally, this moment has been a chance to reflect on something the left ignores: good exists, evil exists, and we are made of both. Kirk’s murder is evil — it is a diabolical work. Satan is not only the prince of lies; he is also the prince of hatred, division, and chaos. We do not live in a world where everyone is good; often, not even we ourselves are good. We live among angels and demons, because that battle is fought every day in our hearts. God did not send us only on a mission of peace, but of struggle — of combat. God gave us the Archangel Michael, hardly the kind of ally you take with you on a quiet vacation in paradise. And more recently, He gave us Carlo Acutis, now canonized, who reminds us of the Christian’s weapons: the Eucharist and the Holy Rosary.
Lately, I have shared with friends the sense that evil has been unleashed, that a strange new chill — a kind of globalization of sin, lies, and hatred — is sweeping across the planet, freezing thousands of narrow hearts, turning them cold, frivolous, indifferent, and numb — condemned to commit, applaud, and spread evil. Just days before the incomprehensible murder of little Iryna Zarutska, a schizophrenic driver plotted and carried out a plan to run over as many people as possible at the busiest intersection in my city. Many were left gravely injured. They say he is insane. It doesn’t matter. I see only another manifestation of an exasperating evil that seems to have broken its chains.
Kirk’s death, which had its terrible prelude in the assassination of Miguel Uribe Turbay in Colombia, has not only shaken awake those dormant hearts resigned to evil — it has unleashed good in the world. From Madrid and Rome to New York, groups of young people gathered last night before U.S. embassies or outside churches to pray in public for Kirk and his family. The spontaneous slogan was the same everywhere: enough with minutes of silence, enough with pagan tributes unworthy of our Christian civilization and inconsistent with Kirk’s testimony of faith. This time, let us pray together, aloud and in public, for his eternal rest. (RELATED: The Martyrdom of My Friend Charlie Kirk)
We will not answer with hatred. That is not what Kirk would have done. But neither will we fail to denounce each and every one who celebrates this murder. It is important for the entire West to see that today’s left is a repugnant factory of totalitarian monsters. Some point the finger, others pull the trigger — both hate with a diabolical hatred. (RELATED: Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Is a Turning Point for the USA)
I come from a country that has suffered too often at the hands of leftist political violence. We don’t need to reach back to the Spanish Civil War. When I was a child, we woke each morning wondering who would be murdered that day by the Marxist-Leninist terrorist group ETA. Those wretches always killed from behind: a politician, a journalist, a police officer. And Basque nationalist politicians consistently found a way to subtly excuse the murderer or to blame the victim: “He must have done something. He must have said something.”
The priest at my school became a priest in order to learn to forgive the men who murdered his father. He had eight siblings — the oldest only 24 — all of them seated with their mother at the table one ordinary evening, waiting for their father to come home from work. There was laughter, food already served, the joy of expecting him at any moment. He never came. Terrorist rats riddled him with bullets at his own front door. The children heard the gunshots and ran out, catching only a glimpse of their father alive for a few seconds. From that atrocity, God drew forth a priestly vocation from an enraged child — the priest I later knew at school, who has done so much good ever since. (RELATED: The Role Model Generation Z Needed — Charlie Kirk)
We cannot comprehend God’s plans. Thinking of that beautiful woman and those precious children, it is horrible for a Christian not to understand why the good God, or the Blessed Virgin, did not deflect the bullet. Sometimes I feel like Saint Teresa, who once jokingly rebuked Jesus in the tabernacle: “If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so few!”
And yet, whether we understand it or not, God always brings good even out of evil. And so now, an immense ray of divine light pierces the heart of the West, laying the foundations of a new era — perhaps a rebirth of faith, of goodness, of grace. At this very hour, Kirk’s Christian witness is penetrating the minds and hearts of thousands of young people who never knew him, and his words of peace and truth are spreading across the world, unleashing an unstoppable wave of hope.
Today, I want to thank God for Charlie Kirk and for all the good men and women who are so generously giving their lives to spread goodness, beauty, and truth throughout the West.
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