The Catholic Sun: Fr. Fred Adamson, vicar general and moderator of the curia for the Diocese of Phoenix, also spoke at the press conference. Fr. Terra, he said, administered the last rites to Fr. Walker in spite of his own suffering. Fr. Terra was being badly beaten in the attack, he said.
When asked if there was any security at Mater Misericordiae Church near the state capitol grounds, Fr. Adamson said he was not aware of “any security that was there other than the two priests.”
“They have been there four year years and felt it was a safe place to live,” Fr. Adamson said. Fr. Terra is “a pretty strong man — he’s not afraid of anybody — and if anyone came in there and asked him, he would give them the shirt off his back. That’s the type of priest he is — a real servant of God,” Fr. Adamson said. Full report is here.
