This week, in parochial and Christian schools across Chicago and the suburbs, schoolchildren filed into pews with their classmates to observe church services ahead of the school day.

Afterward, they returned to class as usual.

Two of their peers up north did not.

Two children — 8 and 10 years old — died Wednesday celebrating Mass.

They were killed in Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis when a gunman shot through the windows of the church, which was filled with parents, teachers and students celebrating Annunciation Catholic School’s return to the classroom. Seventeen others were injured.

As we write, we don’t yet know their names. What we do know is we wish they’d been able to walk right back to school after church ended. We wish this was just another normal day for their fami

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