Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of San Diego, issued the following statement today:

“Let every man, woman and child join in prayer this day for President Trump, for his family and for our tormented nation. May the God of healing and consolation enshroud our former President. May the Lord embrace and sustain all of the victims of this terrible shooting and their families. And may this day be a moment in which we face clearly the patterns of division that have overwhelmed our political life and brought violence once again to the center of our electoral stage, so that we might turn away from this pathway which so utterly contradicts the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the aspirations of every generation that has sacrificed to build our great nation.”