There is a ballet dancer who will no longer dance and a doctor who will no longer heal. A church has lost her priest, a classroom is minus a teacher. Cora ran a food pantry. Paige was a counselor and Dana, dearest Father, Dana was only three years old. These attacks are to be condemned in the strongest terms.
All religions teach the sanctity of human life.
People of all faiths need to reach out to one another in prayerful and practical support. At such a time it is important for people of good will from every community to join together so that the pain, fear and hatred is not compounded in reactions to this travesty. Already some religious and ethnic communities in Australia are feeling increased aggression directed toward them - particularly the Moslem community. This is to be deplored. We join all in our nation and world in shock and anger at today s horrific chain of attacks on sites that are national symbols, claiming yet-uncounted innocent lives.