A Shooting At a Downtown Church

"People have a shorter fuse. It’s almost like – ennui – like a cloud that hangs over society itself.”

The front doors of the Catholic Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, at the corner of Central Avenue and M.L.K. downtown, are an 800-foot walk from the front doors of the Georgia capitol. They are also a thousand miles away.

I know about this church. I have been inside it before. I have spoken to its parishioners and its priests. But I don’t know this c…