Historic Downtown San Jose Church Hit with Satanic Graffiti

San Jose Spotlight ^ | 9/3/19 | Nadia Lopez

[marshmallow]

A historic Catholic Church in the heart of downtown San Jose was vandalized Sunday morning, hours before congregants gathered to participate in Sunday mass.

Satanic and anti-semitic graffiti spray were sprawled against the church’s outside walls, alongside taunting drawings of a ghoulishly painted smile below two windows and a two-toned colored pentagram.

Church officials from the Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph confirmed on Tuesday that they are working with police, who are investigating the incident.

“The Diocese of San Jose is aware of the incident and is working with San Jose police to apprehend the culprits,” said spokesperson Liz Sullivan in a statement.

The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Joseph — a religious flagship in Santa Clara County — has been home to the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose for more than a hundred years. The church is listed as a historic landmark in California and also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Hundreds of parishioners across the county flood the church’s halls every Sunday, including Council member Raul Peralez’s mother who serves as an Eucharistic Minister.

[Steve_Seattle]

" . . . everybody has to be able to believe that the national rhetoric that’s going on throughout our entire country is not helping at all.”

One wonders specifically what rhetoric he is talking about? Somehow, the paper seems to suggest that he's talking about Trump's rhetoric, but Trump has not been demonizing Catholics or Christians - the left has. Mayor Pete, for example, and Feinstein, and the abortion movement, and the LGBTQ movement.

[glasseye]

The downtown Hispanic community will take care of this.
The Antifa jerks crossed a line they did not even know existed.

[wastedyears]

[YogicCowboy]

I have performed there numerous times in evening concerts; once I participated in a Sunday morning worship service with a visiting choir.

It is a beautiful building. It is roughly squarish (or octagonish), so the reverb is short and crisp. Singing in the center was a unique experience for me.

Most of the great cathedrals for choral music are in Europe or Russia. This is one American cathedral I regard highly; there is one in San Francisco I similarly regard.

These kinds of desecrations are only going to continue - and worsen - as long as secularism and depravity are compulsorily taught in government schools.

[Nifster]

A beautiful structure

Downtown San Jobus no longer a safe place