“Like Jesus, Annie laid down her life for her friends. Like Jesus, Annie’s life and death brings light, truth, goodness and love to a world often shrouded in darkness, evil, selfishness and death.”
N.Y. Cardinal Timothy Dolan said about Anne Marie Murphy at her funeral Mass at St. Mary of the Assumption Roman Catholic Church. Murphy was a teacher killed in the shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan comforts mourners after a funeral for teacher Anne Marie Murphy at the St. Mary Of The Assumption Church in Katonah on Dec. 20, 2012.
(AP)
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