Mass attendance up at various colleges in wake of Charlie Kirk assassination

St. John’s Catholic Newman Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. / Credit: Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CNA Staff, Sep 15, 2025 / 17:31 pm (CNA). In what some are calling “the Charlie Kirk effect,” people across the nation, including many college students who are not ordinarily churchgoers, have decided to go to church since the assassination last week of the conservative Christian political activist Charlie Kirk.Matt Zerrusen, co-founder of Newman Ministry, a Catholic…