Posted on 06/06/2023 6:22:02 PM PDT by marshmallow
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone urged America’s leaders to start taking attacks on churches more seriously after a local prosecutor reduced charges for five individuals accused of vandalizing a Catholic mission.
Writing at the Wall Street Journal on June 1, Cordileone said the “long, deep and sordid history of anti-Catholicism” has been ignored for far too long in America, and attacks will continue unless action is taken.
At least 260 attacks on Catholic churches have occurred since May 2020, including arson, vandalism and other property damage, according to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. LifeNews, the Family Research Council and others also have tracked a rise in violence against other Christian churches and pro-life organizations in the same time period.
Cordileone expressed frustration that the attacks are not being treated more seriously and perpetrators are getting off easy, noting incidents “from arson to spray-painting, beheading and toppling statues, to defacing gravestones with swastikas and anti-Catholic messages.”
He pointed to an example in his archdiocese where a statue of St. Junípero Serra at the Mission San Rafael in San Francisco was vandalized and five individuals initially were charged with felonies. Late last month, however, Marin County District Attorney Lori Frugoli, a Democrat, reduced the charges to misdemeanors because she said the defendants’ participated in “restorative justice” classes and agreed to pay restitution.
Cordileone said the reduced charges sends the message that “attacks on our houses of worship and sacred images may continue without serious legal consequence.”
“Catholics believe in contrition, but we also believe in justice. This is neither,” the archbishop said. “These five committed a felony, which was witnessed, recorded and widely publicized. History teaches that when we don’t treat religiously or racially motivated crime seriously, we will see more and worse aggression.”
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America’s “leaders” approve of the attacks, and I speculate the Archbishop knows this but is making a point to his people.
I’m beginning to think “Pope material” but then remember he’s an American and would never get it. Cardinal Sarah, however . . .
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone urged America’s leaders to start taking attacks on churches more seriously
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I agree and am reminded of the Korean’s on the roof protecting their store during the LA riots. It worked!
A team of volunteer church members with night vision and AR 15’s is what it’s going to take (up in the bell tower) as Police can’t or won’t help you anymore.
History teaches that when we don’t treat religiously or racially motivated crime seriously, we will see more and worse aggression.
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History teaches that when we don’t treat ANY crime seriously, we will see more and worse aggression. There, fixed it!
The MAJOR cause of increasing crime, especially felony crimes, is precisely because such crimes are NOT taken seriously. And why is that? HINTS: think RACE, GENDER, COWARDICE, and STUPIDITY.
I'm hoping for Eijk (Netherlands) or Erdo (Hungary).
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