SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO/AP) — It's a scene repeating all over the country: Catholics gathering for mass, with the tragedy of Wednesday's deadly shooting at a Minneapolis church not far from their hearts.

"There's a cloud hanging over, I think, most of us today who were here at mass," Rev. James Morgan said Thursday. "I mean, it was fairly palpable, the sorrow that we feel."

Morgan celebrated Mass on Thursday in Sioux Falls.

"They weren't even in the school," Morgan said. "They were in the church attending mass when this happened, and so that just weighs very heavy on my heart and I think on the heart of all Catholics."

Morgan and Bishop Donald DeGrood, who leads the Diocese of Sioux Falls, each encourage prayer for the people suffering in Minnesota.

"Turn to the Lord, but also to turn

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