A statue of Christ at St. Charles Borromeo parish in Waltham, Mass., that was vandalized May 2-3, 2021.
Posted on 05/10/2021 6:48:21 PM PDT by marshmallow
A statue of Christ at St. Charles Borromeo parish in Waltham, Mass., that was vandalized May 2-3, 2021.
During the night of May 2-3 a statue of Christ at a Massachusetts parish was decapitated.
The destruction at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Waltham, about 10 miles west of Boston, was discovered the morning of May 3.
Fr. Michael Nolan, the parish’s pastor, told CNA: “It's possible that it's an attack on the faith, a more direct attack on the faith, and a more serious act of sacrilege as opposed to … vandalism.”
Mary Darcy, 75, a parishioner of St. Charles Borromeo, told CNA: “It’s very upsetting to think that somebody would desecrate a statue.”
Fr. Nolan told CNA that this is the second attack on a Catholic facility in Waltham this year. An abandoned Catholic chapel was set on fire on Good Friday, in what has been ruled an arson.
The incident follows a series acts of vandalism against churches.
In April, the face on a statue of Christ was spray painted black at Saint Mary’s Cathedral in the Fargo diocese. On March 13, the sidewalk outside Saint Joseph’s Parish on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. was vandalized with what appeared to be satanic graffiti.
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Knowing this state as well as I do I’d say that there are at least 3 million plausible suspects.
Just a Byedone voter. No problem.
We’re in the midst of a new Gnostic heresy imo.
The High priests of that religion are the only ones allowed to speak because they are a member of the sacred group who have true knowledge.
Souls preexist and it is therefore possible to be a misgendered person, woman trapped in a man’s body, and a man trapped into a woman’s body.
The body is disgusting and should be tattooed and modified.
Morality is relative and those with sacred status are allowed to be hypocritical.
That’s my list so far, it sounds like a new Gnosticism to me.
You give them too much credit. It’s just plain evil, these actions demoralize hundreds of people each time they occur.
The FBI will be along shortly to tell us this was just another attempt at “Suicide by Cop”.
I wasn’t aware there were any remaining churches in Massachusetts.
Its not credit, I just see this as a re-emergence of the pagan gnostic ideas of that attcked the early church.
Sure its plain evil, but there are plenty of examples of Ancient analogues to what is going on now.
Well, the Bible does say that there is nothing new under the sun so it is not surprising that ancient heresies pop up in “new” forms.
I think as deception ramps up and God’s Spirit slowly withdraws we’ll see more of an effort for the churches to unite and a willingness to do so....the Global leaders know that they need the revenue sources and the peoples cooperation and they will never have that without the people of faith regardless of which one...religionists/counterfeits so to speak..joining together.
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