Posted on 03/19/2021 6:24:09 PM PDT by marshmallow
Two more Catholic churches in Boston have been vandalized yet again, an “unsettling” pattern of incidents that police are investigating.
Both Dorchester’s St. Teresa of Calcutta Church and Southie’s St. Monica-Saint Augustine Church recently had their locks damaged on the same night, and a statue of the Virgin Mary was toppled at Saint Monica’s.
“It’s a sacred house, and it shouldn’t be damaged,” said Rich Gribaudo of Saint Teresa’s, adding, “It’s unsettling.”
Boston Police officers on Friday at 6:30 a.m. responded to St.Teresa’s and St. John Paul II Catholic Academy in the area of 800 Columbia Road. An unknown substance — some sort of sealant or putty — had been found on several door locks, preventing people from using keys to unlock the church and school building.
Then 90 minutes later, officers responded to another vandalism call at St. Monica’s. The same unknown substance had been found on all four door locks of the church, and a statue of the Virgin Mary had been knocked over. The same statue had also been toppled a week earlier, but that the incident had not been reported.
A church volunteer was helping repair the statue at St. Monica’s on Sunday.
Police are now looking for help in identifying a male suspect, whose image was captured on security cameras at the churches.
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Something tells me the perpetrators weren’t members of the 700 Club.
I used to live across the street from St. Teresa of Calcutta, which was then St. Margaret’s Church. Every Sunday the bells played the military theme songs.
When there are no rules in a country and law becomes a joke...well...
Being it’s Boston, I hope the private citizenry will uncover the perps. Save the tax payers lots .
Christophobic
Just recently a guy in Colorado was sentenced to 20 years in prison for just considering attacking a synagogue. My bet is that these vandals if they bother to find them at all, will get off with a slap on the wrist.
In the old Southie, the perp would be stuffed unto the trunk of a car which would end up in the long term parking lot at the airport.
Stolen, no fingerprints.
So what would be the response if these were black churches?
its a Catholic church so nobody cares..
First they came for the Jews.
Then they came for the gays.
Next they came for the Catholics.
And soon, for you!
MM - European family wiped out by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Nobody came for them and the other victims of a 2,500 persons/children massacre in Lemberg/Lvov.
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