WNY Secular Franciscans Advocate for Gun Violence Awareness

Maria Hayes Around the Province

WEST CLARKSVILLE, N.Y. — When John and Anita Dutcher, OFS, learned of the shooting at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, they were making gingerbread cookies. Both members of the St. Irenaeus Secular Franciscan Fraternity were deeply affected — they had lost a close relative to a gun-related incident. As former representative Gabrielle Giffords called on the nation to “do …