Overview

• During his Sunday Angelus, the first U.S.-born pope prayed for victims of the Aug. 27 attack and urged an end to the global 'pandemic of arms'.
• Two children, Fletcher Merkel, 8, and Harper Moyski, 10, were killed and 18 others were wounded when a gunman fired through stained-glass windows during a school Mass at Annunciation Catholic Church.
• Minneapolis police said the shooter fired 116 rifle rounds, was armed with a rifle, shotgun and pistol, and died by suicide after the attack.
• Investigators are reviewing the suspect's writings and online posts indicating anti-Christian messages, with the FBI probing possible domestic terrorism and hate-crime motives according to reports.
• Annunciation held its first Masses since the shooting in a school auditorium, as local and church leaders pressed for responses that pair prayer with concrete action on gun violence.