The following is the telegram of condolence for the victims of the shooting at Annunciation Church, Minneapolis, United States of America, sent on behalf of the Holy Father Leo XIV by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin to Archbishop Bernard Hebda of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, United States of America:

Telegram

THE MOST REVEREND BERNARD HEBDA
ARCHBISHOP OF SAINT PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS

HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV WAS PROFOUNDLY SADDENED TO LEARN OF THE LOSS OF LIFE AND INJURIES FOLLOWING THE SHOOTING THAT TOOK PLACE AT ANNUNCIATION CHURCH IN MINNEAPOLIS, AND HE SENDS HIS HEARTFELT CONDOLENCES AND THE ASSURANCE OF SPIRITUAL CLOSENESS TO ALL THOSE AFFECTED BY THIS TERRIBLE TRAGEDY, ESPECIALLY THE FAMILIES NOW GRIEVING THE LOSS OF A CHILD. WHILE COMMENDING THE SOULS OF THE DECEASED CHILDREN TO THE LOVE OF ALMIGHTY GOD, HIS HOLINESS PRAYS FOR THE WOUNDED AS WELL AS THE FIRST RESPONDERS, MEDICAL PERSONNEL AND CLERGY WHO ARE CARING FOR THEM AND THEIR LOVED ONES. AT THIS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TIME, THE HOLY FATHER IMPARTS TO THE ANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC SCHOOL COMMUNITY, THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAINT PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS AND THE PEOPLE OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES METROPOLITAN AREA HIS APOSTOLIC BLESSING AS A PLEDGE OF PEACE, FORTITUDE AND CONSOLATION IN THE LORD JESUS. 

CARDINAL PIETRO PAROLIN
SECRETARY OF STATE