CNA Staff, Jul 12, 2020 / 10:50 am MT (CNA).- Boston police are investigating an arson attack on a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary Saturday night, the second attack in the U.S. on a statue of the Virgin Mary in two days, and during the same weekend in which …

CNA Staff, Jul 5, 2020 / 08:28 pm MT (CNA).- On the evening of Independence Day, a crowd in Sacramento tore down a statue of St. Junipero Serra, set fire to it, and beat it with sledgehammers. The statue, on the grounds of California’s state capitol, was the third figure …

Second Dayton Catholic incident in 2017 includes pipe sabotage. By Walt Schaefer In a brazen act of destruction, vandals ruined or badly damaged Catholic religious items and statuary and a miniature sanctuary at the Dayton headquarters of SPORCH (Society for Preserving our Roman Catholic Heritage) in November. Mary Popp, SPORCH …

  By Gail Finke The statues can’t be repaired, but Christ’s love can’t be harmed, said Father Satish Joseph, pastor of Immaculate Conception Church in Dayton. Long before dawn on Wednesday, two people visited the parish’s Shrine of Our Lady of Belmont – twice. They didn’t come to pray, but …

Update: According to Cincinnati’s WKRC Local 12 news, 2 men have been arrested in connection with the spray painting vandalism on St. William Catholic Church earlier this month.  By Megan Walsh The Catholic Telegraph  Late Saturday night, St. William Catholic Church was vandalized with red spray paint. The front of …