Posted on 04/11/2023 6:14:13 PM PDT by marshmallow
CNA Newsroom, Apr 6, 2023 / 13:00 pm A statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe was smashed in half at Corpus Christi Catholic Church in Corona, California, on April 1.
“It was very heartbreaking, especially coming at the beginning of Holy Week,” Maria Bravo, the parish office manager, told CNA in a statement Thursday.
“A lot of parishioners were very emotional about it. They brought flowers. Many offered to help in whatever way they could,” she said.
The vandalism occurred at about 11:30 p.m. on the Saturday on the eve of Palm Sunday.
The vandal, a male, was caught on security cameras walking up to the statue and pulling it down, according to John Andrews, communications director for the Diocese of San Bernardino.
The parish has a strong devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe and even has a mural of the apparition on one of the church’s exterior walls. Our Lady of Guadalupe is also the patroness of the Diocese of San Bernardino.
Father Fidel Rivero, the church’s pastor, said his message for the vandal is prayer and forgiveness.
“We just pray for him. We don’t know what his motive was. We ask God to forgive him for whatever he did,” Rivero said.
A police report was filed with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office, Andrews said. A parishioner has volunteered to attempt to refurbish the statue, Andrews added.
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Check the local fbi.
Thats not even a crime anymore now if it were a mosque
How many Catholic and other Christian churches have been attacked since the Biden regime assumed power?
Too many.
Attacks on any other type of church hasn't mattered to them for years.
When churches self identify as synagogues or mosques, then our govt will care.
So, will this be categorized as a hate crime? What other motive could there be?
“What other motive could there be?”
Protecting the USA from Catholic Domestic Terrorism. You know, like the FIB does.
They smash one of ours...
We smash six of theirs...
This makes me sad and mad all at the same time.
Its not a serious crime such as leaving a piece of bacon on a mosque door knob
It’s probably another pro infanticide degenerate.
Far too many.
I bet that intolerance was perpetrated by those who ask for tolerance
Seen on security cameras. Where is the obligatory “police have no suspects”?
400 Churches vandalized or partially burned by arson since 2018.
Most of the period of last year and this year there wre no active investigations and recently a handful were trumpeted as being worked on. Whoopee.
Before I retired I was surprised at how anti-God the students were (mostly, not all).
One case. Female to me at the university library: “I saw you have a subscription to the Journal of Church and State. You shouldn’t have it here if it has something to do with churches. Nothing about churches should be in this place.”
This is an Oxford University scholarly journal exploring both sides of the first amendment issues in various cases each year.
The male criminal was caught on video but no description and no arrest.
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