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Republican Lawmakers Demand DOJ Act on Anti-Catholic Attacks
Catholic News Agency ^ | 8/31/22 | Edie Heipel

Posted on 09/02/2022 7:17:38 PM PDT by marshmallow

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 31, 2022 / 16:05 pm A group of Republican lawmakers sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland on Tuesday condemning what they described as the Department of Justice’s inaction over the steady rise of anti-Catholic attacks and hate crimes.

The letter, authored by Rep. Lisa McClain of Michigan, who is Catholic, and co-signed by 19 other GOP members, called out Garland’s failure to respond to the increase in vandalism and other attacks on Catholic churches and institutions since May 2020.

“Millions of Christians are under assault for merely exercising their constitutional right to freely practice their religion,” the letter reads. “We are forced to wonder if your Department of Justice will ever address the over one hundred crimes against Christian holy sites in America.”

One such crime happened in May of this year when a tabernacle was stolen from inside St. Augustine Church in Brooklyn, New York. The Holy Eucharist was also desecrated and statues on either side of the tabernacle were decapitated.

McClain’s letter cites a tracker maintained by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) documenting more than 160 attacks against the Catholic Church, a number that has steadily risen since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24.

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


TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: antifa; arrestgarland; arrestwray; bidensbrownshirts; whatdidwrayknow

1 posted on 09/02/2022 7:17:38 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Yeah, they’ll get right on that. Right after they indict Hillary Clinton for, well, anything.


2 posted on 09/02/2022 7:19:13 PM PDT by LIConFem (I lost my tagline in a boating accident.)
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To: marshmallow

Why only 19 Republicans?


3 posted on 09/02/2022 7:20:11 PM PDT by djpg
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To: marshmallow

Catholics have rights?


4 posted on 09/02/2022 7:30:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Just like other Americans. Well, they used to, before bathhouse Barry usurped the White House.


5 posted on 09/02/2022 7:45:24 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: marshmallow

Rut-Roh.

LOL!


6 posted on 09/02/2022 7:57:24 PM PDT by Ken Regis
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To: Elsie

We better run for the border


7 posted on 09/02/2022 7:59:25 PM PDT by Ken Regis
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To: djpg

“Why only 19 Republicans?”

It is pretty pathetic.


8 posted on 09/02/2022 8:42:19 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: marshmallow

Merrick can start with Adolph Biden.


9 posted on 09/02/2022 9:14:14 PM PDT by eyedigress (Trump is my President!)
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To: marshmallow

We haven’t seen anything yet. When the Satanic Party solidifies their hold in the House and Senate in November it will become alot worse. They will begin an all out assault on Christians and Jews. Nothing will stop them.


10 posted on 09/03/2022 4:58:36 AM PDT by Russ (I )
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To: marshmallow

Can’t GOD just zap the evildoers!?


11 posted on 09/03/2022 5:37:33 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

He could (but for now) He won’t because He is not willing that anyone perish but that they should all come to repentance unto life (II Peter 5:9.)

But when He decides “enough is enough” His judgment will fall on these impenitent sinners like a ton of bricks.


12 posted on 09/05/2022 4:38:22 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a waholdingrning to all antisemites)
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