Catholics frustrated as increasing attacks
on churches go unnoticed
Posted By: Ribicon, 9/7/2021 6:55:27 PM
Denver—Their houses of worship have been torched and hit by gunfire, their statues smashed and defaced repeatedly in the last 18 months, but Catholics are having a hard time getting the powers that be to notice. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops reported 93 incidents as of Aug. 24 in 28 states since May 2020, including “arson, statues beheaded, limbs cut, smashed, and painted, gravestones defaced with swastikas and anti-Catholic language and American flags next to them burned.” That figure may be low. C.J. Doyle, Catholic Action League executive director, said the list left out 12 of the 15 incidents during that period in Massachusetts, including a Molotov
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Part and parcel of living in a Godless Marxist utopia, even down to Pravda refusing to cover such crimes. We're not quite even with France, where arsonists who burn ancient cathedrals go unpunished, but we're making progress.