Posted on: 4:05 pm, August 6, 2012, by Katie DeLong and Mike Lowe, updated on: 04:06pm, August 6, 2012
Archbishop Jerome Listecki
MILWAUKEE ? One of Wisconsin?s most influential spiritual leaders, Catholic Archbishop Jerome Listecki reflected on Sunday?s shooting at the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek with FOX6 News. Six individuals lost their lives, and the gunman, identified as 40-year-old Wade Michael Page was fatally shot by Oak Creek police at the scene. Three were critically wounded. The FBI is investigating the incident as a possible ?act of domestic terrorism.?
While officials have not released an official motive in the case, it appears Page may have been motivated by hatred. FOX6 News spoke with Archbishop Listecki regarding how a community can begin to heal after seeing that hate and evil are indeed real.
FOX6?s Mike Lowe: ?Archbishop, I wanted to begin with the shooting in Aurora Colorado. While difficult to understand, we can kind of rationalize it.? We see the pictures of the guy with crazy eyes, red hair and we see it as the sick work of a disturbed, detached, depressed guy. But when we hear about the reports of what happened in Oak Creek, it?s something different.? It seems like it?s organized hate. How does a community begin to grapple with that reality??
Archbishop Listecki: ?First of all, evil comes in all shapes and sizes ? from the almost insane shooting in Colorado to the calculated terrorist attack on a very peaceful people, the Sikhs, who all they wanted to do is worship.?
Mike Lowe: ?How do you go about identifying evil ? calling it out and eliminating it?
Archbishop Listecki: ?I think the very first thing is we recognize it, and we recognize that it exists. We have to be able to call it out, name it and in so doing, it?s a light that?s shined in this darkened area of our existence and culture, and that helps all of us to become safer.?
Mike Lowe: ?The Pope has talked about the ?clouds of evil overshadowing? parts of the earth.? Do you see our society as locked in almost existential struggle between good and evil??
Archbishop Listecki: ?One of the aspects that sometimes is missed and only reflected on is in the midst of the tragedy,? you had individuals who did heroic things.? Why?? They wanted to convince their brothers and sisters.? In the instance of the Sikh community, the leader of the community kind of grappling with this man to his own death, police officers who came out to defend, that?s really the best of us.?
Mike Lowe: ?Are there practical responses to this? For example, stricter gun control.? Is there a moral imperative in passing legislation like that??
Archbishop Listecki: ?That?s going to be left to the leaders and the politicians to be talking about that. What our job ? and any religious leader ? is to embrace their community and talk about the dignity of human life.? To hold up that dignity and make sure we support it.?
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Source: http://fox6now.com/2012/08/06/spiritual-leader-archbishop-listecki-reflects-on-sikh-temple-shooting/
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