Posted on 08/24/2016 2:52:07 PM PDT by Morgana
BOWLING GREEN, MO (ChurchMilitant.com) - In early August, a self-proclaimed Wiccan Catholic smeared a local Bowling Green Catholic church with her own feces. On Monday, August 22, she was found dead in her apartment from an apparent suicide.
The local coroner, Jim Turner, has withheld the details of 54-year-old Linda Howard's death, only saying it looked like a suicide and that he would release details at a later date.
Howard, who vandalized St. Clement Catholic Church, told police she committed the act because she was angry with God. The parish priest, Fr. Bill Peckmen, posted a message on his Facebook page expressing his deep sadness following the reports.
A month ago I asked your prayers for the lady who was responsible for the desecration of our church. I just found out that she is dead. I am sick about it. I now ask you to pray for her and her family. I would respectfully ask that anything other than a comment that you praying be left unsaid. Thank you.
The feces had covered the statues in the church, the Blessed Sacrament, the sacred vessels and the Bible. The woman poured sacred oils on the floor and soaked the sacred linens in the church and vestments in the wine.
Howard confessed to local police that she was a parishioner. In early August, the local bishop, Bp. John Gaydos, performed a special rite of purification for the church.
A visiting priest discovered the vandalism when preparing to celebrate Mass early Sunday morning, July 24. The church had been kept open overnight so that people could pray in times of need.
Howard was caught when the local police were able to trace the vandalism back to her, following reports of her car seen in the parking lot the night of the crime. The perpetrator initially claimed she was at the church to light candles and pray, but following further examination, she eventually admitted to the crime.
Howard, who is a Wiccan, said that after vandalizing a few items, the rest of her time in the church committing sacrilege was a "blur."
Demon. Hopefully extinguished with her.
Purification ritual is in response to desanctification attempts, far above ordinary vandalism.
This is my diocese (but not my Parish). She was obviously very mentally ill. Very sad all around.
Uh, you’re not even close.
Yep, but don't expect another mi poster to get their mind around that or even grok the difference...
Re : Post #39 ~ I’ve been studying the mystery of inequity.
It’s really a fascinating study. Even believers are subject to its powers. ~
Of course, you were referencing INIQUITY, but this is understandable as we are living in a leftist world... A world where inequity must be abolished! :^)
† Dominus vobiscum †
Yes, correct.
I’m not close to what? The study of inequity is futile. Life is basically unfair.
A typo.
Jeez, no wonder contributions to this forum are down.
Way, way down.
I've heard that happens when the demons take over. You lose consciousness of what you are doing.
But she's still responsible. She invited them in in the first place.
this woman was sick....she needs our prayers...
Ding dong, the witch is dead ... sing it high and sing it low ... ding dong the wicked witch is dead .... hi ho the der-i-o ....
Holy crap. That’s a HARD 54. That said, I’m glad she’s dead.
Dear God, please have pity on her and all suicides. Please have pity on all of us and help us to avoid mental illness.
“I’ve heard that happens when the demons take over. You lose consciousness of what you are doing.
But she’s still responsible. She invited them in in the first place. “
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We don’t know that. Mentally ill people don’t know what they are doing. Demons haunt the mentally ill just because they are weak to start with. She’s telling us she practices two different religions. Anyone who crosses any two religions together, two religions that have nothing in common, well they must be delusional. For all we know she was worshiping pink fluffy bunny rabbits.
We are living in a large mental institution. Before the LIBS closed the mental institutions such people would be institutionalized and heavily medicated.
Prayers for a deeply disturbed soul.
Lord have mercy!
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