Posted on 12/10/2021 11:55:10 AM PST by 11th_VA
WASHINGTON — Days ahead of a major Marian feast day in the Catholic Church, a marble statue of Our Lady of Fatima near the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington was vandalized, with Mary's hands and nose cut off, her face scratched and the cross on her crown broken off.
On Dec. 8, the feast of the Immaculate Conception, a spokesman at the national shrine told Catholic News Service that around 10:45 p.m. Dec. 5, the perpetrator got to the statue by climbing a locked fence that surrounds a rosary walk and garden that includes the statue.
Video footage showed a masked person doing the damage, which was discovered the next morning. Police were investigating the vandalism...
"Though we are deeply pained by this incident, we pray for the perpetrator through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary under her title of Our Lady of Fatima," Msgr. Walter Rossi, rector of the national shrine, said in a statement...
"There remains much we do not know about this phenomenon, but at a minimum, they underscore that our society is in sore need of God's grace," they said, calling on the nation's elected officials "to step forward and condemn these attacks."
"In all cases, we must reach out to the perpetrators with prayer and forgiveness," said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, chairman of the Committee for Religious Liberty, and Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, chairman of the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.
"Where the motive was retribution for some past fault of ours, we must reconcile; where misunderstanding of our teachings has caused anger toward us, we must offer clarity; but this destruction must stop. This is not the way," they said...
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicherald.com ...
The ACLU threatens it every year, but our elected county officials basically give them the finger because our town overwhelmingly supports this celebration of the season. And, yeah, Trump carried our county by over 30%.
Anyone surprised? Anyone? Anyone?
satan doesn’t just want their soul. He wants them to be useful to him until he gets them into the eternal fire with him.
“Catholicism is the main brand of Christianity in my country (Westmoreland, Pennsylvania) and, I am proud to say, they work very well with the other sects in our community.”
Growing up in NY, ‘out on The Island’, the Dominican nuns were fieeeerce. We had many religions many churches, a temple many religions in the neigbpruand in the public school. Never did I ever hear a word from the nuns or my people that one religion was primary or better than another.
My town is still that way. Big NYC commuting town. Big Trump flag on the tallest building too.
Not until I encountered people in my adulthood and met people who were raised differently. And forget the south. When I moved with the military I met people who struggled with catholicism forget Judaism. The military though as an institution is the most non discriminatory organization there is. As far as my experience goes.
Just saying.
When the time comes, payback will truly be a bitch!
AntiFa type probably.
Thank you. Well said.
From you post: “it is nearly useless to discuss religion with devout Catholics.”
Have YOU ever tried?
Personally, I have learned that if you are going to have a discussion with someone with whom you disagree, you must first establish common ground.
Even so, it is still difficult. Only the light of God’s abundant grace can move one’s mind to a place objectively better than their current state.
Sad and sick.
These attacks on Catholic statues and churches have been ongoing for years and years, but really ramped up starting last year with BLM protests and antifa antics.
The guy who defaced a beautiful marble statue of the Blessed Mother with the Christ child in my hometown in 2004 was reportedly a paranoid schizophrenic hearing voices. (Mary’s face was hacked up her, baby Jesus decapitated and his little arms hacked off.)
Police said they were “investigating” whether the vandalism of the statue of the Blessed Mother (decapitated, head stolen) at a Chattanooga parish last summer was a “hate crime” but I can’t find any news of an arrest, so they probably never found the culprit(s).
No, probably a Democrat.
“Reading elsewhere it’s not considered a hate crime...”
And the rationale for that position?
Biden's and Pelosi's fault.
What these monsters don’t understand is that they can deface a stone representation of our Blessed Mother — but still... they can’t touch her.
And eventually, she will step on their master’s head.
I pity them.
Well you go for it. It’s like mark Steyn once said of an infamous public figure, ‘that noted theologian, the Reverend Al Sharpton’
I saw the video and the criminal was very health conscious as he wore an anti-Wuhan virus mask to prevent getting any Wuhan virus germs on the statute and thus risk it getting sick.
I’m not Catholic but I’m thinking God is not going to be so gracious with someone dissing His mom...
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