The blood of children spilled before the altar. There are no words that can soften such a horror, no easy answers for the shock that gripped me when I first heard about the Michigan Catholic School Mass shooting. The church, meant to be a sanctuary of peace, of innocence, of Eucharistic presence, became a place of terror. Nothing feels more heinous than violence desecrating the very space where Christ offers His body for the life of the world. My first thoughts spiraled into