They had to leave the main road and take a narrow road up a hill behind the school, park the car, and then walk uphill from there on the path...pass the stations of the cross - pass the chapel - pass the Lourdes grotto scene - cross the footbridge, climb a set of steep stairs to get to the Cross(one of the most impressive crucixion depictions you’ll ever see).
It’s VERY much out of the way.
They had to know exactly what they were doing and where they were going.
They probably were drunk and stupid, but this seems to require premeditation as well.
See post #9. It’s a detail unmentioned by the media.
Read the Gospels and see Jesus' solid, honest, manly character and his luminous heart, and I think even an agnostic or atheist would say, at least, "He was a good guy." (A lot of them do.) It's scary how othr people will go out of their way to spit on him, slime him with filth, try to efface his images with a claw hammer.
But I guess it shouldn't be surprising. Lent. Not surprising at all.
Yes, it is inaccessible to anyone who doesn’t know the area. Evidently these two jerks were at the youth retreat.
Thanks for the info. Drunk and stupid I assumed. I had hoped it wasn’t deliberate or premeditated, but it’s hard to imagine that it wasn’t. Especially given the 150th anniv. of Lourdes.
Whoa. For a second I thought you said predestination.