National Catholic Register, Sep 3, 2025 / 17:16 pm

Should Catholic churches make it harder to shoot through windows?

That question has taken on urgency this past week, after a gunman fired dozens of bullets through narrow stained-glass windows during an all-school daily Mass at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis on Aug. 27, killing two schoolchildren and wounding at least 21 other people , including pupils and elderly.

Security experts who spoke with the Register said windows are an obvious vulnerability for many churches, and they suggested that Church officials should pay more attention to making them more secure.

“Your glass is the weakest point,” said Joe Bockheim, account manager of West Michigan Glass Coatings , a company in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that provides enhanced secu

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