Thomas Griffin 9/16/25 (For Daily Signal)
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“Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude and insult you, and denounce your name as evil on account of the Son of Man. Rejoice and leap for joy on that day! Behold, your reward will be great in heaven.” (Luke 6:22-23).
These are the words Jesus spoke during his Sermon on the Plain. They were also the scheduled reading at last Wednesday’s Catholic Mass—the day that Charlie Kirk was assassinated. The death of Kirk reveals so much about the state of the human condition. It screams of hatred. It calls for sanity. It implores rational dialogue. Most emphatically, it calls for an increase in faith in Jesus Christ.
Kirk spoke for family values, for traditional marriage, and for the dignity of the unborn. His logic on college campuses and vitality of speech got him killed. What Kirk spoke about in his tents across the country and on podcasts and television shows for over a decade was that college students should be willing and able to speak freely, without ramifications for their grades or enrollment. His willingness to fight for the freedom of speech and sane conversations for students ended with his death.
Thomas Griffin is the chairperson of the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island where he lives with his wife and children. He has a masters degree in theology and is a masters candidate in philosophy. Thomas is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Empty Tomb Project: The Magazine. He is the author of Let Us Begin: Saint Francis’s Way of Becoming Like Christ and Renewing the World.
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