Fr. Bruce leading Stations of the Cross in Memphis culminating at the Lorraine Motel.
Pope Paul VI on the Assassination of MLK, Jr.
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., was fatally shot outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
On the day after King was killed, Pope Paul VI expressed remorse during his Angelus address, saying that the civil rights leader was “a Christian prophet for racial integration.”
Read the full article originally published in 2018 by the Catholic News Agency. It remains relevant, perhaps especially now.
In Rome
When commissioned a Missionary of Mercy in Rome, Fr. Bruce shared the photo from Memphis and its story in Memphis with Pope Francis.