El Paso TX: Vandals Decapitated historic statue of Jesus on church altar - by Kassidy Vavra (The Sun) 16 Sept 2020

 

The Diocese of El Paso shared pictures of the Sacred Heart of Jesus – a 90-year-old statue – that had been destroyed on Tuesday morning.

A statue of Jesus was decapitated in El Paso on Tuesday, the church said
4
A statue of Jesus was decapitated in El Paso on Tuesday, the church saidCredit: Facebook
The figure at St. Patrick's Cathedral was vandalized
4
The figure at St. Patrick's Cathedral was vandalizedCredit: Facebook

The Diocese said the incident occurred at St. Patrick's Cathedral around 10am on Tuesday, while the church was open for prayer.

"We are saddened to announce the vandalism at St. Patrick Cathedral earlier today," the Texas diocese said in a post.

Pictures show the head of Jesus decapitated on the church altar.

The left hand and arm was also broken off, and lay on the marble ground.

The base of the figure was also disconnected.

Tiny pieces of the statue lay all around the smashed figure.

The diocese said one suspect was detained by police in the incident.

Police are continuing their investigation.

The El Paso Police Department could not immediately be reached by The Sun on Tuesday.

The church is mourning the loss of the historic statue.

The Sacred Heart of Jesus was destroyed in the incident
4
The Sacred Heart of Jesus was destroyed in the incidentCredit: Facebook
Church officials said police detained one person in the incident
4
Church officials said police detained one person in the incidentCredit: Facebook

"I am in shock and we at the Cathedral are heartbroken over such an unexpected situation," St. Patrick Rector Fr. Trini Fuentes said in a statement.

The Bishop expressed thanks that no one was hurt in the incident.

“As sad as I am to see a statue attacked and destroyed, I am grateful that it was not a living person,” Bishop Mark Seitz said in a statement.

“But a statue, particularly this statue, concretizes and connects us to persons and ideals that are not visible to our eyes.

..............

https://www.the-sun.com/news/1482244/vandals-decapitated-statue-jesus-church-altar-elpaso/

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Venezuela: US Military Veterans Captured As Armed Mercenaries Landing By Sea - Inside A Coup Operation - By Kevin T. Dugan (Rolling Stone) 6 Dec 2020

Image
  Inside Operation Gideon, a Coup Gone Very Wrong Why did three American ex-Special Forces soldiers try to overthrow the Venezuelan government? By Kevin T. Dugan December 6, 2020 The two Americans left late on May 2nd, 2020, well after dark had fallen on an arid beach near Castilletes, in northern Colombia. The men, both ex-Special Forces, had been waiting to pile into a flat-bottomed boat stocked with guns and ammunition and about 50 Venezuelan revolutionaries for a journey into the heart of enemy territory. The mission was Operation Gideon, and its objective was to overthrow President Nicolas Maduro. But the weather wasn’t cooperating, and t...
Read more

BBC guide for talking down to ‘conspiracy theorist’ relatives is a subtle indoctrination on approved propaganda - by Kit Klarenberg

Image
The BBC has released a guide on talking to ‘conspiracy theorists’ during Christmas festivities – lecturing readers on how to dismiss alternative views instead of questioning and discussing them. In a highly embarrassing yet entirely predictable U-turn, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has effectively  cancelled  Christmas for an untold number of Britons, less than four weeks after announcing plans to recklessly relax coronavirus restrictions significantly from 23rd - 27th December. Nonetheless, the BBC feels the risk of people getting within 1.5 metres of loved ones possessed of dangerous, alternative opinions over the festive period remains sufficiently high to justify  publishing  a five-point guide on “how to talk to people about conspiracy theories without ruining Christmas”. ‘Pass the roast potatoes’ The explainer commences by setting out a number of abstruse and bizarre potential scenarios almost certainly - and mercifully - unfamiliar to most re...
Read more

Caitlin Johnstone: The two-faced mainstream media is already using the Washington riot to call for more social media censorship

Image
  G Police officers stand guard as supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump gather in front of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington By  Caitlin Johnstone , an independent journalist based in Melbourne, Australia. Her website is  here  and you can follow her on Twitter  @caitoz   So the US gets a tiny taste of its own medicine and now the press wants controls on what people can say on the internet - but who decides whose comments & whose dissent is acceptable? The United States received a very small taste of its own medicine as rioting Trump fanatics temporarily forced their way into the nation’s Capitol building , and now the whole country is freaking out.   I am being generous when I say that America was given a very small taste of its own medicine; unlike the horrific coups and violent uprisings the US routinely orchestrates in noncompliant nations around the world, this one stood exactly zero chance of seizing co...
Read more