NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Oprah Winfrey has broken her silence about this past weekend's mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, which left 31 dead.
When asked by Extra's Renee Bargh to try and explain the rash of violent acts, Winfrey said, "I think what people are missing is a core moral center.”
Winfrey, who is currently promoting her latest OWN project, "David Makes Man," continued, "Churches used to do that … It was a central place you could come to and there was a core center of values about a way of living and being in the world ... Until we can return to that, however that is, in whatever form, we will continue to be lost."
The media empress said she seeks comfort during these troubling times from storytelling.
"That's why I actually believe storytelling is a form of a new religion," she said, "because it's a place where people can gather and be inspired and see themselves and get filled.”