The thieves chose the most valuable item in the church, ping!
Evil does exist. Praise the Lord, He does prevail.
They took the contents of the Tabernacle, but ditched the Tabernacle. Satanists.
Henry sounds like your typical modern parish functionary; entirely detached from the spiritual, totally engrossed in the material and firmly believing that the world loves us, or at least ought to, since we love it.
Prayers.
For a long time, I have suggested that under Vatican diplomatic auspices, an organization be created of Catholic former military volunteers, funded by contributions, whose purpose would be to travel the world to advise oppressed Catholic communities how best to *protect* themselves from external threats.
Protection, the avoidance of aggressive threats, is far different from defense, which meets force with force. But protection significantly increases the degree of difficulty of aggression.
And if the threat is too great or acute for protection, this organization could provide emergency evacuation, to take these oppressed people out of harms’ way.
Each group of advisers, again traveling as representatives of the Vatican, would first discover both the level of threat and the means used by the aggressors. For example, in some places, Muslims try to kidnap young girls to force them to convert and become wives. So it would be good advice that girls do not stray to places or circumstances where they could easily be kidnapped. Of course it seems a common sense thing, but it surprising how often these kidnap victims thought they had Muslim “friends” who became kidnappers.
For this situation in Canada, the threat is mostly from hate filled atheists, who seek to steal, vandalize and defile. A different threat that needs different measures to confront, as taught by an expert, not haphazardly guessed, perhaps under or overreacting.
I thought the Tabernacle was supposed to be bolted down and practically immovable without heavy equipment.
“Teens” or “Youth”
Place your bets.
I am still trying to figure out why people do bad things? They may get some temporary benefit, but when do they learn it just temporary and not really worthwhile?
If they would open up to the goodness of God and just do the right thing, they would be much happier.
May everyone grow up and understand the key to happiness is to love God and your neighbor.
It looks “safe-like” to me. I bet the thieves were pissed there wasn’t any salsa to go with the chips.