Fundamenalists destroy altar during Mass

[zabbazooey]

Prayers for the people who offended God and for the parishioners!

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='homeschoolmom' date='Oct 4 2005, 08:51 AM']This doesn't necessarily mean they're fundamentalists. They could be members of some cult or atheists. They could be disgruntled Presbyterians for all we know. The article doesn't elaborated on the motives.
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They're probably Anglo-Masonic Presbytero-anabaptists of the Lutheran-Zwingli Confederation.

[1337 k4th0l1x0r]

Yikes this literally hits close to home. My wife went to that church and her parents still do. They've had that altar for a real long time, since the old St. Ann's church was built and that was back in the 19th century. My in-laws went to mass Saturday night so they probably didn't hear about this. I just called my wife and she is getting in touch with her parents and hopefully we can get more info on this.

[Paladin D]

Lord have mercy.

[1337 k4th0l1x0r]

Here's another story on it: [url="http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1128417430152490.xml&coll=1"]http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/ind...2490.xml&coll=1[/url]

Aparently, the FBI is already involved in the investigation and they are looking into it as a hate crime. The good news is that just a corner from the top of the altar broke and a few of the legs broke so it is likely that the altar will be repairable. From what it sounds like, the group of attackers were part of a small, if unorganized, Christian cult and one of the woman attackers was raised Catholic. The man leading the attack said that he didn't intend on breaking the altar and only wanted to tell the people to "change their ways" and "teach them to pray right." Given the speech they used it seems like it could be a hate crime. Also, the priest there is very upset over the whole issue and is wanting to do more to keep other attacks from happening. It's not uncommon for our churches to be attacked. At my last parish someone came in the church and defiled the statues of the Holy Family and threw the flowers into the baptismal font. There are still a lot of ignorant people down South and we should pray for them.

[sweetpea316]

Terrible...

[Duc_In_Altum]

Its more common than most people think. The parish that i am a young adult leader at had some neighborhood kids break in just last year. They tried burning all the vestments in the middle of the sanctuary and tipped over pews.

That's a little different though.

This is a really sad story. I sure hope they can repair that altar and that the parishoners are stronger for it. . Lord have mercy.


peace,

-Joe

(with my angry face on)

[Paladin D]

A parish I used to go to for about 3 years (back in Delaware), was set on fire about a year ago. Only the rectory attached to the building was burnt, and one of the two priests burnt his hands while trying to open a glass door to escape.

They also found swatizkas (the symbol the Nazi army used) drawn on the outside of the church. Last I heard, the FBI was investigating the case since it was considered a hate crime.

[photosynthesis]

This is absolutely horrifying!!!

A parish I went to a year ago every so often (St. John's, Westminster, MD) was vandalized too. Someone went into the church when it was unlocked, stole the Tabernacle and the Eucharist that was inside, and threw it in the middle of the highway near the church. The pastor of the church, Fr. Valzano, went in the middle of the highway, risking his life to rescue the Tabernacle (which was not harmed and licked all of the broken Hosts off the pavement he is such a holy priest...

[1337 k4th0l1x0r]

The attackers speak out now: [url="http://www.whnt.com/Global/story.asp?S=3937833"]http://www.whnt.com/Global/story.asp?S=3937833[/url]

They came on the news last night and were basically unrepentant over what they did. The only apology they gave was to a coffee shop owner whose coffee shop they frequent. They apologized over a loss of business he may have due to the fact the group was often seen there. Pray for these misguided souls.

[Guest T-Bone]

[quote]"If it was the from the Lord," Wagner said, "we did nothing wrong, and I'm pretty sure it was from the Lord." [/quote]

Um, yeah...thing is, "pretty sure" doesn't cut it.

May the Lord have mercy on him.

[Philosopher]

[quote name='LSW' date='Oct 3 2005, 10:38 PM']Detective Todd Walker said no one was injured.
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Really I think all the Faithful were injured by this. In a much deeper way then being physically hurt. Thank the Lord we grow through our sufferings.

How sad, they really need our prayers. (Even the convicts)

Edited October 5, 2005 by Philosopher

[1337 k4th0l1x0r]

A couple more articles on them speaking out:
[url="http://www.waff.com/Global/story.asp?S=3937358"]http://www.waff.com/Global/story.asp?S=3937358[/url]
[url="http://www.waff.com/Global/story.asp?S=3937384"]http://www.waff.com/Global/story.asp?S=3937384[/url]

The guy claims they were just driving down the road and happened upon the church. The church isn't on a very major road and once you get past the Walmart on the road its pretty much churches the whole way down. They definitely had their mark on the Catholic church and had this planned out.

[Cow of Shame]

[quote name='photosynthesis' date='Oct 5 2005, 01:49 AM'] and licked all of the broken Hosts off the pavement
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He couldn't pick them up with his hands, and then eat them?

[tojo]

All of those things sound so awful. i hope such happenings are less common here in the north.

[Didacus]

[quote name='T-Bone' date='Oct 5 2005, 11:14 AM']Um, yeah...thing is, "pretty sure" doesn't cut it.

May the Lord have mercy on him.
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I'm pretty sure they'll have a stint in purgatory for this.







But I might be wrong, just pretty sure they will.

[Dreamweaver]

Wow, its just sad that they're not sorry at all for what they did.

[Lil Red]

Lord, have mercy

this is so, so sad!

[Lil Red]

[quote]Turgeon explained frustration as he watched the priest in church. "The dude must have bowed to the table 5 times, its bowing to idols, idolotry," he said.

They say because the Lord sent them there, and they did nothing wrong. "I didn't hurt anybody," Turgeon said, "I know that much."[/quote]

Lord, have mercy upon them!

[tojo]

Yeah, intimidation and persecution doesn't hurt anyone, right?