Beheaded statues and threatened parishioners, shattered stained glass and spray-painted walls, ransacking and arson , urine in holy water and feces in infants’ baptismal water , a murdered priest and a dynamited altar. Now, the United States can add an 8-year-old and a 10-year-old murdered as they prayed at Mass during their first week of Catholic school, along with 17 others wounded, including 14 children.
These are just some of the attacks on American Catholic churches this year. There have been 42 , according to a list compiled by CatholicVote, an activist organization co-founded by Brian Burch, the current U.S. ambassador to the Holy See.
These are not random crimes. They are deliberate assaults on the Church and its faithful.
Forty-two. That’s an incredible nu