This is disgusting: We are going to execute the Fort Hood murderer by firing squad, and it will be live-streamed. Department of War (I still rue the name change) Secretary Pete Hegseth said (with his sleeves rolled up in a button-down shirt, some tattoos showing, with the top few open — as if this is both casual and manly): “We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it. That it’s public. Because people need to understand that there’s serious consequences for these types of things.”

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The death of human beings is not for show. Is this for our entertainment? I fear that’s actually the reason.

The execution is scheduled for December 3, which happens to be the memorial of St. Francis Xavier, the great Jesuit missionary. Every year in the Liturgy of the Hours, we read this, from one of his letters to Jesuit founder St. Ignatius Loyola:

We have visited the villages of the new converts who accepted the Christian religion a few years ago. No Portuguese live here the country is so utterly barren and poor. The native Christians have no priests. They know only that they are Christians. There is nobody to say Mass for them; nobody to teach them the Creed, the Our Father, the Hail Mary and the Commandments of God’s Law. I have not stopped since the day I arrived. I conscientiously made the........

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