This past week we had three other kids murdered. One child, Fidel, age 12, was begging outside a fried chicken restaurant last week in Guatemala City and a man gave him a bag with food with a time-bomb in it. In seconds, Fidel was blown to bits. Two other kids were shot dead by two private police officers after the children found them raping a mentally challenged indigenous woman whose screams they had responded to. A third child was critically wounded.
Prayer is important.
Prayer can help us move in ways that were not possible before. And we must, and do have programs to deal with these realities. Action is only being taken because the world has thrown up its hands in horror, not because that horror is shared by authorities, the congressmen, the judiciary, or the general public. The problem is much deeper. Thomas Kuhn, in his seminal writings on the structure of scientific revolution, suggests that when we need to ask questions that are inconceivable to our current paradigm, we have come to need a new one.