The Polish Pope's predilections on faith can be seen through a Marian prism, which Pope St. John Paul II insisted was Christocentric, as true devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary always leads to Christ.
The Las Vegas Massacre at the Country Music festival near the Mandolay Bay hotel exposed evil in humanity as well as goodness of people. In the heat of the shooting and the aftermath, in which 58 people were killed and over 500 people injured, strangers helped one another to safety. There were many stories in which off duty law enforcement officers and former military selflessly sprang into action to help others and possibly lay down their lives for the safety of others.
When CNN was interviewing victims of the shooting, one of the attendees professed that the horrible experience jolted him from agnosticism to faith in God.