Catholic Symbols of the Faith Targeted in Recent Statue Attacks, by Mary Rose Short

One priest believes ‘that prayers and priestly blessings are always the appropriate response to vandalization of holy things and images of saints.’

By Mary Rose Short,  EWTN News, 7/15/20

LOS ANGELES — Throughout the past weeks, vandals have destroyed and defaced statues across the United States. Memorials to historical figures on both public and private property have been defaced with paint, toppled, or removed entirely. Statues of Mary and the saints are among the damaged, leaving Catholics with questions of how to respond.

“I think the statue-toppling did begin as part of the Black Lives Matter movement and was focused on the Confederate statues,” V. Bradley Lewis, a professor at The Catholic University of America, told the Register. “But it has clearly taken on its own momentum now, and any statue of a person held to be at odds with contemporary political opinions seems to be fair game.”  ….

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