Two [Catholic] Parishes in the Sacramento Diocese Vandalized

Catholic News Agency ^ | 4/27/21 | Joe Bukuras

[marshmallow]

Statue outside Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Woodland, California/ Duke Sancho

Two parishes in the Diocese of Sacramento suffered similar acts of vandalism in the past two weeks.

On the weekend of April 17-18, three statues were vandalized outside Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Woodland, California. In photos sent by parishioner Duke Sancho to CNA, what appear to be statues of Mary, St. John, and St. Mary Magdalene at the crucifixion scene are each disfigured with black spray paint covering the eyes.

Sancho told CNA that a parish men’s fraternity and the pastor Fr. Jonathan Molina organized a project to clean the statues.

Elsewhere in the diocese, a statue of Mary was defaced with black spray paint at Saint John Vianney parish in Rancho Cordova. In an April 25 tweet, a parishioner posted a photo of a Marian statue with black paint covering the face, hands, and feet. A black cross was traced down the main body of the statue.

The parishioner wrote that the graffiti was removed with a slight lasting effect on the statue.

“Took some time. The chemical messed with the rock a little so you can see some changes to the rock where the paint was, but overall it’s cleaned up,” the parishioner wrote.

[nickcarraway]

I don’t think this is considered a crime anymore.

[pacificus]

Sacramento is a pit, as is California...

I was driving to a government office yesterday morning, there was an abadoned vehicle in the middle of the road, with a stick propping up the hood, about 200 yards from a county court complex...looked like it had been there all night.

It was something out of Mad Max, people just swerving around, like nothing wrong here... business as usual.

Zombie land!

[circlecity]

Yet if someone spray paints over BLM graffiti they assign a whole task force to nvestigate.