E o mês só chegou na metade.
Quem serão os culpados? Eles não estão interessados em objetos valiosos, e sim em profanar as hóstias sagradas.
Quem odeia as hóstias sagradas? Ih, não falta gente, socialista, maçônico, protestante, ateu e muçulmano, pelo menos. O jornal The Catholic Herald parece achar que se trata de método de muçulmanos.
Vejam parte do que diz o jornal:
Eucharist
desecrated, statues smashed in series of French church attacks
15 February, 2019
At least 10 incidents of vandalism
and desecration of Catholic churches have been reported in France since the
beginning of February, according to French news sources and watch groups.
Vandals
in Catholic churches throughout the country have smashed statues, knocked down
tabernacles, scattered or destroyed the Eucharist, burnt altar cloths and torn
down crosses, among other acts of desecration of religious items.
According
to La Croix International,
one of the earliest incidents occurred February 4 at St. Nicholas Catholic
Church in Houilles, Yvelines, where a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary was
found smashed on the ground. The church had experienced earlier incidents of
vandalism just weeks prior, when the altar cross was found thrown to the ground
and the celebrant’s chair was damaged.
The
Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe, a
Christian watchdog group, documented another attack at St. Nicholas Church on
February 10, when the tabernacle was found thrown to the ground. A 35 year-old
man later confessed to committing the act to police.
On
February 5, an altar cloth was found burnt and crosses and statues torn down or
disfigured at Saint-Alain Cathedral in Lavaur, in south-central France. The
fire was found early by a parish secretary and did not spread, though the smoke damaged the altar and
adjacent walls.
The
800 year-old building had also recently undergone renovations, local sources
reported.
...
On
February 6, just a day after the Saint-Alain Cathedral incident, vandals at a
Catholic Church in Nimes broke into the tabernacle and scattered the hosts on
the ground, drew a cross on the wall with excrement and damaged other religious
items in the church, according to local reports.
...
The
Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe
documented another incident on February 9 at the Church of Notre-Dame de Dijon
in Côte-d’Or, about 175 miles to the south and east of Paris.
Again
in this incident, the tabernacle was opened and the Eucharist scattered. An
altar cloth was also stained and a missle book was torn.
Father
Emmanuel Pic from Notre-Dame parish told La Bien Public news
that since nothing of great monetary value was damaged, it seems the vandals
wanted to attack the “heart of the Catholic faith.”
“Nothing
of value has been broken, but it is the intent that is very shocking. This is
what characterizes profanation,” Pic said.
The
vandals seemed to have known that attacking the altar and the Eucharist would
be “a very strong symbol for (parishioners), since the hosts consecrated during
the previous Mass are no longer just a piece of bread in the eyes of
Christians” but the body of Christ, he added. The priest also posted photos of
the desecration to his Twitter account. Mass resumed at the parish after a Mass
of reparation was said by the local archbishop.
...
In
a statement posted to
Twitter on February 13, Prime Minister of France Edouard Philippe also
condemned the acts ahead of a meeting with the country’s bishops.
...
While
it is yet unclear if the incidents are at all related, they recall the series
of attacks and vandalism that
the Catholic Church in France and Belgium experienced in 2016 by the Islamic
State. The worst of those attacks included the murder of Fr. Jacques Hamel, who
was killed by jihadists while celebrating Mass at a church in
Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray in Normandy. The assailants entered the church and
took the priest and four others hostage. Local law enforcement reported that
the priest’s throat was slit in the attack, and that both of the hostage takers
were shot dead by police.
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