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The last thing we need right now is yet another “know-it-all” commenting upon the tragedies in El Paso and Dayton. So let me start by acknowledging I’m hardly a “know-it-all.” Like you, I find myself asking “why?” and failing to get many answers.

I’d like to share with you a powerful statement by my brother Bishop Checchio of the Diocese of Metuchen on the Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act , which recently passed in New Jersey. Here’s an excerpt: On August 1, the new law, the “Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act,” [went] into effect in our state.