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NYPD increasing security at churches on Staten Island after string of incidents
ABC ^ | 01/16/2026 | Crystal Cranmore

Posted on 01/18/2026 10:22:20 AM PST by Kid Shelleen

The NYPD is enhancing security at houses of worship on Staten Island following a string of recent disturbances at Catholic churches.

That includes an incident that happened at St. Ann's Church in Dongan Hills last week where a man stormed the altar, disrupted the sermon and got into a fight with two officers who tried to stop him.

Matthew Caffrey, 28, is charged with assaulting an officer and resisting arrest.

That incident last Friday morning is the latest in a string of crimes at Catholic churches across Staten Island.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc7ny.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: church; churches; isolatedincidents; matthewcaffrey

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1 posted on 01/18/2026 10:22:20 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

What happened to our Staten Island guy “dp”?


2 posted on 01/18/2026 10:23:28 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Kid Shelleen

Mamdanijugend doing Brownshirty things.


3 posted on 01/18/2026 10:30:08 AM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: Texas Eagle

This time; FIRST they came for the Jews. Now its the Catholics. I wonder who is next?


4 posted on 01/18/2026 10:32:25 AM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Kid Shelleen
“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also.

John 15:18-20

The USA had been so comfortable for Christian for so long, everyone has forgotten this. The change has already occurred. You will soon be reminded.

5 posted on 01/18/2026 10:33:07 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Kid Shelleen

The DA is already looking for “alternatives to incarceration” for these anti Catholic, relgion hating leftist criminals. The DA states that it must include a promise never to repeat such a criminal act against these institutions.When the Mafia had a significant presence on Staten Island there would have been a definite alternative to incarceration for these leftist lowlifes and there would have been no chance whatsoever that they would do it again.


6 posted on 01/18/2026 10:48:09 AM PST by allendale
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To: allendale

A promise? Do you really think these reprobates are capable of keeping a promise?


7 posted on 01/18/2026 10:55:37 AM PST by Machavelli (True God)
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To: Kid Shelleen

” I wonder who is next?”

I’m expectantly waiting for them to come for Tennessee Rednecks.


8 posted on 01/18/2026 10:56:01 AM PST by dljordan (Yeah, I'm a Boomer and it's all my fault you whiny little bitch.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Are we sure this is not delayed revenge against another child molester priest?


9 posted on 01/18/2026 10:57:21 AM PST by cgbg ("Your identity is how power treats you.")
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To: Kid Shelleen

Maybe I was taught an oversimplification in my grammar school history.

But I was taught that religious freedom was what brought settlers to this new world and freedom to religion was a pillar of Our Republic.

How ironic that approaching our 250th birthday religious freedom has never been attacked so widely and routinely that is if you are not a follower of “The religion of peace” which has NEVER been freer from attack.


10 posted on 01/18/2026 11:03:44 AM PST by Biblebelter
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To: Kid Shelleen

In response for the church security issues I naturally assumed the NYPD would deploy additional security to local mosques.


11 posted on 01/18/2026 11:39:29 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (אני עומד לצד ישראל. The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I sit at the front, at the end of the pew so that I can respond if some possessed nut charges the alter and/or my Priest.
I hope there’s other men to assist rather than the soft “men” that are around.


12 posted on 01/18/2026 12:04:21 PM PST by SavannahWonderer (First do no harm)
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To: cgbg

I would ask if you are a man or a woman but I assume you’re an “it” that was abused as a younger it.
The folks that touched you can’t hurt you any longer and I pray for your recovery.


13 posted on 01/18/2026 12:07:57 PM PST by SavannahWonderer (First do no harm)
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To: Kid Shelleen

The leftists hate Jews and Christians because of the Judeo-Christian emphasis on moral values, teaching/preaching/seeking to lead a righteous ethical life.

Moral values get in the way of the kind of life and society the communists/nazis/progressives want


14 posted on 01/18/2026 12:15:05 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: SavannahWonderer

Nobody molested me—and I am not even a Catholic.

However—the church’s history of covering up child abuse disgusts me—and it would disgust me no matter what institution it was.


15 posted on 01/18/2026 12:21:55 PM PST by cgbg ("Your identity is how power treats you.")
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To: dljordan

They’re moving from the Saturday people to the Sunday people.


16 posted on 01/18/2026 12:43:21 PM PST by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: cgbg

Small but important point:

They are not child molester priests. They are predatory homosexual priests.


17 posted on 01/18/2026 2:14:29 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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