Terror threat strikes Missouri archdiocese ahead of pre-sainthood Mass for Fulton Sheen

Tens of thousands of Catholics are set to attend the Mass of beatification — the last step before sainthood — for the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen in St. Louis on Thursday.

Roughly a week ahead of the celebration, over which Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle will preside, the Archdiocese of St. Louis was issued a terrorist threat.

‘We pray for an end to the hatred.’

According to St. Louis County prosecutor Melissa Price Smith’s office, 32-year-old Jeremiah Robinson of St. Genevieve allegedly stated in a TikTok video on Sept. 15 that he was two minutes away from the archdiocese’s offices and that “God had instructed him to use no discernment and that ‘everyone who walks into that church is guilty and to kill them.'”

Robinson allegedly posted a second video