Posted on 08/13/2019 5:46:09 PM PDT by marshmallow
He calls for a restoration of the sacred
WATERFORD, Ireland (ChurchMilitant.com) - An Irish priest is warning that vandalism to churches and religious monuments in Ireland will increase as the country's sense of the sacred continues to decline.
A series of attacks on religious buildings, statues and monuments in Ireland, along with the widespread loss of the Faith in the country, has led one priest, Fr. Michael Toomey, to conclude that Christians in Ireland will "be open to more and more criticism and perhaps, sadly, attacks."
Recent acts of vandalism against churches and religious monuments in Ireland include:
* The removal and stealing of the head off a statue of Abp. Patrick Leahy outside Thurles Cathedral in June.
* The painting of Nazi swastikas at the end of July all over the religious site of Holy Year Cross at Scrouthea Hill in the Comeragh mountains.
* The destruction of a stained glass window of the Sacred Heart over the altar at St. Michael's Church in Shroid ― along with three other windows ― on Saturday; this was the second attack on this church (the first was Easter 2017).
Such vandalism has not been limited to Catholic churches and monuments.
In February, vandals attacked an Anglican church, St. Michan's in Dublin, Ireland, which was founded in 1095 as a Catholic church and remained one until the Reformation.
The vandalizers flipped some of the bodies in the vault, twisted the head of a nun's corpse backward and desecrated the body of an 800-year-old crusader, severing his head from his body and stealing it from the site.
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Well, the solution clearly is to invite more Muslims into the country.
Amazing how the Satanic increases when you legalize the killing of unborn children.
Electing a homosexual heathen Prime Minister doesn’t help, either!
Electing a homosexual heathen Prime Minister doesn’t help, either!
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hmmm wondering if they have VOTE FRAUD there also . . .
Ireland sinking back into the mire of the ancient Paganism St. Patrick delivered them from centuries ago.
It’s certainly an unwelcome development, but I suspect it’s atheist “youth” doing this. France has the same problem and they report it isn’t mudslimes doing the desecration.
I was just saying, somebody let the snakes back in to Ireland. Sad.
He don’t want to do anything about cause he is a muzzie commie ass kissin punk like most everybody in this world.
Nobody gots any guts anymore to do chit about anything.. Probably just want to dance with dikes in whitehouse like obama
I do not agree with any form of vandalism.
But perhaps the Irish Catholic Church is reaping what it has down. Read up on the centuries of abuse perpetrated on the Irish people by the Catholic Church and the attempted cover ups by its officials and the deniers. The abuse and injustice was massive - not just an Occassional lapse as they would have you believe.
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