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On this first anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, Bishop Robert Barron of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester in Minnesota posted a video clip of himself delivering a homily in which he observed that Kirk conducted his “Prove Me Wrong” debates on college campuses because he wanted to encourage people to keep talking to each other.
“I want to focus a bit on Charlie’s murder,” said Barron, who is the founder of international evangelization ministry Word on Fire. “The fact that he died not with a gun in his hand, not a knife in his hand, not a grenade in his hand, not exercising violence, but with a means of communication in his hand.”
The bishop explained that Kirk enjoyed going to college campuses where he would express his perspective and invite those who disagree with him to debate him. Barron continued:
He had a microphone and he’d say, “Come on up and, and argue with me. Come up and debate with me. Prove me wrong. And that’s exactly what he was doing the day he died. He was speaking with someone more liberally minded, and in the very act of doing that, he was, he was murdered. This unnerves us, and it should unnerve us because something in our Western civilization is threatened thereby.
Something I love that Charlie Kirk used to say: he’d be challenged by a kid who would say, “What are you doing here on campus? Why are you here? He would say, “When people stop talking to each other, bad things happen. When people in a relationship stop talking, divorce happens. When a society stops talking, civil war happens. Quite right, it seems to me, and that stretches right back to Socrates and provides a foundation for our society.
“Charlie Kirk died with a microphone in his hand—not a gun, a knife, or a grenade, but an instrument of communication,” Barron said in his remarks that accompanied his video clip. “When we stop believing in the dignity of the human person, violence takes its place. A year later, that is still the wound. May he rest in peace.”
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