Individuals — or groups — have targeted at least 113 churches or statues “across 29 states and the District of Columbia since May 2020. Incidents include arson, statues beheaded, limbs cut, smashed, and painted, gravestones defaced with swastikas and anti-Catholic language and American flags next to them burned, and other destruction and vandalism,” according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
“The vandalism of churches and their sacred art gives us the opportunity to bear witness to our hope in the Lord whose beauty is revealed on the Cross,” USCCB said on their website.
In response to the security camera footage, Catholic Vote — “community of patriotic Americans who believe our nation’s founding principles are good and true, and worth fighting for” — tweeted, “Violence against Catholic churches, shrines and symbols is happening everywhere. Comedians mock and the media downplays or ignores.”
Video: Statue Of Mary Attacked, Hands Smashed Off Outside Largest Roman Catholic Church In U.S.
District of Columbia police are on the lookout for any information leading to the arrest of an individual who vandalized a marble statue of Our Lady of Fatima outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C. The attack was captured on a security camera...
