Author Topic: True Evil (Read 807 times)

poche · « **on:** December 30, 2014, 11:44:22 PM »

Recent days have witnessed the destruction of Christian symbols in Europe and the United States and the disruption of a Mass.

On Christmas Day, a vandal entered a parish in Douai, France, and decapitated the heads of eight statues in the Nativity scene. La Voix du Nord reported that the week before, vandals had sprayed swastikas on the church, along with the word “pedophile.”

In response, three churches in the city of 40,000 will now be closed except during Mass.

In Bailleul, a nearby town of 14,000, the image of the child Jesus was taken from the crèche in the parish church.

Five protestors identified as Muslims, four of them children, disrupted a Christmas Eve Mass in Mönchengladbach, a city of 250,000 in western Germany. They entered the church shouting obscenities at Christians, the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians reported.

In Gross-Enzersdorf, a village of 9,000 in eastern Austria, an Egyptian Muslim immigrant sawed down a crucifix that had been a place of pilgrimage for six decades.

In Haverhill, Massachusetts, the image of the Child Jesus was taken from an outdoor crèche at a Catholic parish and replaced with a pig’s head.

In the weeks before Christmas, Nativity scenes were also vandalized in El Cerrito, California, and Berwyn, Illinois. In the latter incident, young people, one of whom shouted, “Long live Satan,” beheaded statues of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Joseph in a convent garden.

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=23623

Viva Cristo Rey · « **Reply #1 on:** December 31, 2014, 03:37:43 AM »

I think maybe New Jersey again ( Bellmawr, NJ? )statues were vandalized.
My Father told me.

poche · « **Reply #2 on:** January 01, 2015, 01:05:28 AM »

Police in Haverhill, Massachusetts arrested a homeless woman on December 30, charging that she attacked a police officer with a crucifix that had been taken from a vandalized Nativity scene outside a local Catholic church.

Police confronted the woman, identified as Amarellis Cermeno, after witnesses said that she had written the number “666”—a number associated with Satan—repeatedly across the outer walls of a Protestant church. She reportedly slashed at the police officer with a metal crucifix.

Upon investigation, police found that the crucifix had been taken from a crèche set up outside Sacred Heart church. Last week the figure of the baby Jesus had been removed from that crèche and replaced by the head of a newly butchered pig.

Cermeno has been charged with several criminal offenses. She is being held for psychiatric evaluation.

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=23641

poche · « **Reply #3 on:** January 01, 2015, 01:26:37 AM »

These are the installments from a prayer request where a Catholic church near where I live was burned to the ground.

Prayers for my parish and the Orthodox parish next door. Fires were set by an arsonist last night; police are not allowing congregants on the properties, so I don't know the extent of the damage, though I do know that our pastor who lives at the church is OK. The suspect is in custody, but nothing is known yet about the "whys" yet.

The Orthodox parish escaped damage to their church; some trees between the two churches did catch fire. At our church, the loss of part of the south wall of the nave and a few icons was the worst of it; the iconostasis seems to have escaped damage. We have been blessed to have several area churches, Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant, offer space for our Sunday liturgy - it is always nice to see Christian charity extended across jurisdictional and confessional boundaries.

We had our first Liturgy in our temporary space, a local Roman Catholic academy's chapel that is not in use on Sundays. We are free to use it at our regular time and without time constraints, and will be able to have our customary Christmas schedule, as well as Presanctified Liturgies should reconstruction carry us into the Great Fast. Several churches offered space, and Father Scott said that four Orthodox bishops had contacted him and offered the use of their churches, which had obviously greatly touched Father. In particular, the fact that St. Elizabeth Mission (ACROD) had offered was particularly moving. Thank you for your continued prayers for our parish and for all those who extended their support to us. May God continue to warm relations between the churches!

Remember also in your prayers Juan Carlos Ramirez, who set the fire. He is a young man facing 20 years in federal prison and is obviously deeply troubled

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