Assault on U.S. Capitol shocks the world
All eight videos on the homepage of the website of the Italian daily newspaper, La Repubblica, on Jan. 7, 2021, cover the previous day’s storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump. (CNS photo)
By Catholic News Service • Posted January 7, 2021
ROME (CNS) The breach of the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 sent shock waves around the world.
As Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane, president of the Australian bishops’ conference tweeted: “I didn’t realize just how much the integrity of and respect for the democratic institutions of the U.S. matter to the rest of the world until this pandemonium erupted in D.C. From the other side of the world, I find myself shaken and disbelieving.”