At my Catholic high school, we set up enough small crosses to fill the grassy area in front of the school. And on the sign out front, the words “Abortion stops a beating heart.”
That was too much to take for one poor soul who decided to drive his/her vehicle through the crosses, knocking them down and scattering them in all directions, and finished things off by splattering black paint on the sign.
As I recall, the police may have been involved in figuring out who did it. But we simply cleaned up, set the crosses back up again, and moved on. The best thing we can do is clean up and pray for the poor lost soul who would do such a thing, and for that matter also pray for all the lost souls who would consider doing such a thing but didn’t have the nerve to do it.
The same crime happened at the U of Notre Dame. The memorial went back up and the campus K of C gave themselves the duty of protecting it. The haters are in ascension and the pacifist response is the wrong reaction. Vandalism is a crime even if we as Catholics don’t rate “hate crime” status.