The final word does not belong to hatred, but love — Kraków’s cardinal after deadly shooting

— As Kraków mourned the victims of a mass shooting Nov.

7 that left six people dead in the city’s historic Main Market Square, Cardinal Grzegorz Rys urged residents not to surrender to fear and hatred, delivering a powerful homily Nov.

8 on suffering, faith and the hope that death does not have the final word.

Preaching at St. Anne’s Church, merely 1,300 feet from where the shooting began, and where hundreds gathered to pray for the dead, the wounded and their families, Cardinal Rys admitted that human words were insufficient in the face of such horror.