Posted on 02/26/2022 6:09:16 PM PST by marshmallow
Recent weeks witnessed acts of vandalism at Catholic churches and cemeteries across the U.S. While some of the alleged perpetrators were young boys or possibly mentally ill men, police are still investigating several cases of serious damage, including arson at a Catholic school in Ohio.
Early on Feb. 24, police in the Norristown, Pa. area found vandalism at three Catholic cemeteries. They were called to St. Benedict Cemetery in Plymouth Township due to vandalism, specifically swastikas painted on headstones. They found more swastikas painted on headstones at Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Conshohocken and at St. Matthew Cemetery in Whitemarsh Township. The same paint appeared to have been used in all three incidents, the Associated Press reports.
In addition, many U.S. flags were trampled and flag holders were broken. Most of the graves hold the remains of veterans. There are also graves of Polish immigrants, many of whom fled the Nazis during the Second World War.
Last week in Framingham, Mass., a small city west of Boston, vandals knocked down seven headstones at St. Stephen Cemetery. Police received a report of the vandalism the morning of Feb. 20.
In October, at the same cemetery, vandals had knocked over 25 headstones for the graves of Sisters of St. Joseph.
Fr. Francisco Anzoategui of St. Stephen Catholic Church told Boston 25 News he worried that the incident was a “hate crime” and a sign of a possible trend of people “going into cemeteries and feeling entitled to do this kind of damage to the stones and not allowing people to rest in peace.”
St. Elizabeth Parish in the Springfield suburb of Ludlow, Mass. was the site of vandalism on Feb. 22.
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Paging the Just Us Dept! Oh WAIT, they're after moms and dads protesting their school boards.
What the Nazis did to the Jews, Democrats will do to us.
Either muslims, satanists or intolerant gays.
Nazis and democrats are both alternate names for socialists.
From 1915 to around 1928, there was the second Ku Klux Klan, and one of its primary targets were Catholics, especially immigrant Catholics. Much of it was headquartered in Indiana.
I remember a story of a drunk and disorderly group of Klansmen, who held an anti-Catholic rally focused on the then Catholic school of Notre Dame. But students at Notre Dame found out about it, so loaded up three riverboats full of students carrying axe-handles or the equivalent, and they proactively went to meet them and give them a whupping.
A hundred years ago they were The Fighting Irish. Any nutcase who dreamed of desecrating a Catholic church or cemetery or school could pretty much count on getting a bare knuckled or worse thrashing.
THAT is how you stop bullshit like this. Not sniveling or whining, or calling for the authorities to act.
methinks you’re right. I think demon possession is on the rise.
Anyone who desecrates graves should face serious jail time.
It is completely acceptable as long as is doesn’t include negro or raghead places of worship, schools, or cemeteries...
Congress dithers and does nothing. America is finished. It’s just a matter of time..
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