Were the Minnesota Children Martyrs?
Above are Fletcher Merkel, 8, and Harper Moyski, 10, both of whom died in the opening-Mass killing that took place in a Minneapolis Catholic school on 27 August 2025. Last week, I put on X: "Someone asked on my Substack article if the kids shot in MN could be martyrs. I replied: 'At first I thought not, but it does seem to be at least two deaths in odium fidei, which means in hatred of the faith. We know this from the killer's stated motives. So yes, it's very likely they are martyrs.'" As could be expected, I got some push-back from traditional Catholics who did not believe they could [...]