Knife Wielding Whackos, Japan, France

[CharlesHarris]

The French news accounts this morning suggest that none of the victims resisted and that they accepted their martyrdom. It would behoove the Church to study again the sackiing of Rome by soldiers of the Holy Roman Empire in 1527 and the heroic actions of190 Swiss guards and a few Jesuit monks who took up arms and were martyred in combat so that Pope Clement VII could escape, whereas only 42 of the Pontifical Swiss Guard survived and 12,000 innocents were slaughtered.