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December 19, 2012

Newtown pastor tells mourners child victims were gift from the start

The casket of Jessica Rekos is placed in a hearse following her funeral Mass at St. Rose of Lima Church in Newtown, Conn., Dec. 18. Mourners packed back-to-back services at the church that day for Jessica and James Mattioli, two of the 20 young victims o f the Newtown shooting massacre.

RYE, N.Y. - Addressing mourners at the first two funerals for young victims of the Dec. 14 school shooting in Connecticut, Msgr. Robert Weiss, pastor of St. Rose of Lima Church in Newtown asked, "Where else but the church could we bring this unspeakable act?"

Published in International
December 18, 2012

'Sacramental sense' of priest's response after shooting called powerful

Msgr. Robert Weiss speaks to young women inside St. Rose of Lima Church during a vigil service the evening the day's tragic events unfolded Dec. 14 in Newtown, Conn. At least eight of the children killed in the shooting rampage at nearby Sandy Hook Eleme ntary were to be buried from St. Rose, a parish of 3,200 families and the only Catholic church in Newtown.

RYE, N.Y. - The "sacramental sense" of a Catholic pastor's outreach after the horrific violence

Published in International
December 17, 2012

'No words' can describe shock, sadness after shooting, says priest

Undated photos from various memorial websites show the victims of the Dec. 14 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newton, Conn. Pictured, starting on the top row, from left to right, are Ana Marquez-Greene, Caroline Previdi, Jessica Rekos, Emilie Parker, and Noah Pozner; Jesse Lewis, Olivia Engel, Josephine Gay, Charlotte Bacon and Chase Kowalski; Daniel Barden, Jack Pinto, Catherine Hubbard, Dylan Hockley and Benjamin Wheeler; Grace McDonnell, James Mattioli, Avielle Richman, Rachel Davino and Anne Marie Murphy; Lauren Rousseau, Mary Sherlach, Victoria Soto, Dawn Hochsprung and Nancy Lanza.

NEWTOWN, Conn. - Msgr. Robert Weiss, pastor of St. Rose of Lima Church in Newtown, was at Sandy Hook Elementary School

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