In the Catholic pews of Annunciation Church and School in Minneapolis, two children—only 8 and 10 years old—were gunned down during a morning Mass. At least 17 others, including elderly parishioners and schoolchildren, were wounded in what the FBI is now investigating as a domestic terrorist attack on Catholics.
Enter Jen Psaki—stage left—griping that “prayer is not freaking enough.”
The former Biden press secretary and current MSNBC voice took to social media, dismissing prayers and condemning what she sees as the ineffectiveness of faith-filled responses, while also aiming her rhetorical artillery at Trump’s DC crime crackdown New York Post.
“Prayer is not freaking enough. Prayers does not end school shootings. prayers do not make parents feel safe sending their kids to school. Prayer does not bring these kids back. Enough with the thoughts and prayers,” Psaki posted on X.
JD Vance saw red—and fired back.
The vice president, narrowing his rhetorical bullseye, reminded Psaki that prayer is not a substitute for response—it’s the heart’s raw, human response when logic fails us. As he pointedly asked, why scold the faithful for invoking God when their children were shot while praying?
Psaki’s pronouncement wasn’t just tone-deaf—it’s emblematic of a modern liberal instinct to devalue the spiritual in favor of the pragmatic. But what is prayer, really? Not ineffectual: it is solidarity in sorrow, a plea for divine mercy, and—critically—a moral foundation upon which meaningful action must be built.
Let’s connect dots: when prayers emanating from tragedy become punchlines, when faith is dismissed, you have a culture that’s not just ignoring God, but actively sidelining the transcendent at our most fragile moments. Psaki’s flippancy risks reinforcing the narrative that faith is quaint—but it’s faith that sustains communities when everything else crumbles.
Vance’s retort wasn’t just political theater—it was a delicate religious truth: You pray because your heart is broken; you act because your conscience is compelled.
And action matters—but so does tampering with the divine.
That Minnesota killer, who’d posted a violent manifesto and changed legal identity under the cloak of gender ideology, reminds us that mental health, ideological confusion, and radical identity politics can incubate tragedy—and prayer alone doesn’t stop bullets. Nor does unchecked cultural dissolution.
We—Catholics and conservatives—must simultaneously uphold solid public policy, robust community mental health measures, and hold fast to the sacramental power that binds us: prayer. Enough with the empty dismissals. Pray. Then act.
Psaki’s post smacks of a materialistic worldview that denies the reality of a spiritual world that exists all around us, despite remaining unseen with the physical eye. And that’s what the radical left, fueled by an ideology crafted by sinful man and dark spiritual forces want.
A materialistic response to these kind of tragedies results in emotional, knee-jerk reactions. Reactions of that category then lead to pubic policies being created and enforced that are used to suppress basic rights that are inherent to all human beings under natural law, a gift handed down from our Creator.
Make no mistake. Satan uses people like Psaki and other left-wing politicians for his own ends. Focus on the shooting itself, the tools used to carry out the horror, and avoid thinking or engaging with the ideology/worldview that inspired the shooter to carry out his twisted plan.
We are in a cosmic, spiritual war for the battle of souls. It’s not a war fought with bullets. Not at its core. One could make a case for the need of security outside Church masses that is armed and prepared to shoot potential threats as need arises, but that’s a different story for another time.
No, our war is one of ideas. Of truth versus falsehood being pushed by the Father of Lies. Catholics need to be less worried about potentially offending someone with the truth and boldly proclaiming it. Those who are twisted by gender ideology and transformed into radical terrorists through liberal brainwashing will never be set free, and thus these tragedies will continue, if the truth of the gospel and the fullness of faith is not proclaimed.
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