[Mrs. Don-o]

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Pachamama be swimmin' wit' de fishes, heh.

[humblegunner]

Pachamama - Pokemon... what’s in a word?

[Red Badger]

Chicken so good it’ll make you Pachamama!.......................

[ctdonath2]

Interesting how the author fails to identify “some men” who perpetrated the implied dastardly deed. Presumably Catholics, they weren’t just random outsiders vandalizing a practically random place, they were parishioners clearing what they construed as vandalism out of _their_ place.

[TalBlack]

Over time the disregard of law by those in charge eventually brings about disregard of law by those subject to it.

Would that the Democrats could flash to this simple truth... Save us all a hell of a lot of trouble.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

A few days ago men removed some female figurines

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Please!! Stop using crude hate against Catholicism.

These are not idols.

They are art.

They are strictly used only in veneration and not worship!!!

These statues are used because the Apostles taught their use - passing by oral tradition from generation to generation by our Catholic leaders.

[DesertRhino]

Not in a homicidal way or anything... but it would be nice to see the men who allowed the statues in the sanctuary thrown into the Tiber also!

But this was a great day for someone to take action and defend the church.

[livius]

Wow! I can’t believe that the prissy Ralph Peters, who has protected Francis tooth and nail despite “reservations,” has gotten to the heart of the matter.

There are many “traditionalists” out there now saying that the act of these brave men (who may have been the dreaded “Novus Ordo Catholics”) was wrong, that they have resisted the Pope, that they’ve committed all sorts of sins....I honestly don’t know what these (admittedly, self-proclaimed) trads are all about.

What about the Faith? Who is going to defend the Faith? These men did.

[DoodleBob]

I am a strong believer in the sanctity of private property. Thus as much as I empathize with and may be inclined to cheer on this act, theft is theft.

Indeed, reading through Aquinas' writings on theft and robbery it is hard to justify this act.

However, if we believe the faithful are in a "just war" then these statues may be fair game..but I am very hesitant to declare war on Mother Church right now. Why? Because what is to stop the modernists from sacking Rome when we get a trad Pope?

Just as Deplorables get peeved when some leftist defaces Trump signs, if the tables were turned and some Jesuit dumped a St Pius X statue into the moat, we'd be hopping mad.

Now, we've given ammo to the opposition, you know "trads are thieves, shut them down, arrest these miscreants, blah blah blah..." and we've given tacit approval for the modernists to strike back when they're out of power.

There has to be a better way.

[Joe 6-pack]

This is the Pac Mama I remember from my youth...

[Missouri gal]

Removing the idols did not entirely solve the problems created. There is the likelihood of desecration of the church and self excommunication (latae sententiae) of the involved clerics. Further, we have real concerns that Francis has apostatized and therefore may have lost the power of his office, along with his co-participating clerics. There are a host of penalties for bad clerics listed in the code of canon law, but they require the judgment and imposition by a clerical superior.

[ebb tide]

See what happens when you don’t caucus a thread.

They come crawling out of their dark crevices like cockroaches.

[Elsie]

... the nude statues...

Now if the guys running the church would have just put on the sign outside:

Come see our naked ladies

I'd bet the pews would be overflowing.