A sign of the times:
On the morning of Saturday, July 11, Fr. Manuel Perez, pastor of St. Stephen Catholic Church in Chattanooga, was walking the church grounds and preparing for Mass when he noticed that the statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary had been knocked over. Upon further inspection, he noticed the head of the statue was nowhere to be found, although the body and pedestal of the statue remained.
“Fr. Perez said that he looked around the church grounds to see if he could find a missing head and he couldn’t locate it,” Jim Wogan, director of communications for the Diocese of Knoxville, told CNA.
The statue is about five feet tall and estimated to be worth about $2,000. There was no other damage to the church, and Wogan said that the statute was partly shielded by shrubbery.
Wogan said he could not think of any reason why St. Stephen Catholic church would be targeted by vandals.
Oh, I can think of more than a few category of suspects without trying: Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Satanists, Anarchists, Mentally Deranged, people who just really hate Catholics, and the list goes on. The Faith has never lacked for enemies. The problem is that our leaders, if you can use that term to describe them, have made clear that attacking Catholics is a completely safe activity. I am almost more angry at them than the fiends who perpetrate these outrages.
I can only heartily concur with your conclusion about our silent leaders (silence in the face of evil is complicity) They did not crucify our Lord because of his silence. Perhaps we (the worldly Church) are here in 2020 in no small part because the words “discern” and “admonish” were struck from the homiletic pulpits of the world.
Sounds like Fr. Manuel Perez has the party line down well: see no evil, hear no evil—and end up actually doing evil by lack of courage and silence. Just like his Bishop.
So it goes.
Apparently, one more Southern city infested with refugees from northern hell holes.
It requires a lot of courage to topple and vandalize a statue in the middle of the night.
“And that that’s thing, isn’t it? Some Confederate statues coming down and a couple of pieces of iron depicting St. Junipero Serra are not even remotely The Great Tribulation. But comfy white conservative Christians–acutely aware that they are not persecuted in the slightest and in denial over the fact that they are themselves complicit with the persecutors–are dying to cast themselves in the role of victim martyrs even as they kneel on the necks of the brown and the poor and make war on their defender, the Holy Father.” – Mark Shea’s take on the issue. So there could be another group added to the list, at least in terms of being enablers.
even as they kneel on the necks of the brown and the poor
The essence of the racist is that they always judge the group rather than the individuals within the group.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=gettysburg+killer+angels+sergeant+&view=detail&mid=C42F3F9CEBE4AD04C551C42F3F9CEBE4AD04C551&FORM=VIRE
Bishops and USCCB and senior clerics in Rome are sleepwalking through their destruction. American bishops actually think you can appease Caesar.
And the propaganda continues.
When the LA Times 7/12/20 recently reported on the suspicious fire destroying the historic San Gabriel Mission, they could not help themselves but had to comment that ”The [California] mission(s) had become a symbol of oppression”—-Virtually justifying a potential arson if that turns out indeed to be the source of the fire.
At least, for his part Archbishop Jose Gomez did some pushback stating again that Junipero Serra was a saint, and “should not be blamed for the abuses perpetrated by others.”
But the media-wing moves closely in unison with the dark forces of night.
God is love. You will know them by their fruit. Sow seeds of love and peace. Spend some quiet time with Jesus in the Blessed sacrament. He is a balm for our weary souls.
Peace be with you my brothers and sisters. Look within and be the change you wish to see in the world
God bless.