Massachusetts: Virgin Mary statue vandalized, “ALLAH” painted in Arabic on its base

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Catholic Church leaders were too busy hand-wringing about islamofauxbia and silencing those who speak about Muslim persecution of Christians to take much notice.

Norwood Virgin Mary statue

“Virgin Mary statue vandalized at Norwood parish,” by Reenat Sinay and Alexandra Koktsidis, Boston Globe, March 27, 2016 (thanks to Vicki):

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A statue of the Virgin Mary at St. Catherine of Siena Parish in Norwood was vandalized with black spray paint on Good Friday, the most sacred day of the year for Catholics.

The body of the statue, which depicts the Blessed Mother with praying hands, was covered in paint. Graffiti was scrawled beneath a plaque that reads “To Jesus Through Mary,” on the base of the statue, which stands in a garden outside the parish school.

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The Rev. Stephen Donohoe, the pastor of St. Catherine, called the incident “a sad act of vandalism,” but asked parishioners to pray for whoever defaced the beloved figure.

“Please pray for the person or persons who did this.” Donohoe said in the statement, released Saturday by the Archdiocese of Boston. “We are reminded never to take the gift and treasure of our faith for granted but to live it and proclaim it every day.”

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In a tweet posted Saturday night, Norwood Police asked the public for help.

“Statue defiled last night at St. Catherine’s,” said the tweet, which was posted just after 8 p.m. “Father is asking for prayers, but we could also use some leads. If you know something call us.”…

One parishioner was outraged by the vandalism.

“It’s disrespectful to every religion,” said Linda Curran, 73, who learned of the from a neighbor. “I just feel badly. Norwood really has many different houses of worship . . . many different cultures in the town, and there’s never been a problem..”

A town official denounced the act as disrespectful to all faiths in town.

“Personally, I think it’s a very sad thing to have happened, especially on Easter weekend,” said Paul A. Bishop, chairman of the Norwood Board of Selectmen.

“It’s not just about Catholics — it’s disrespectful to all religions,” he said. “The statue has been there for generations.”…

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Juan
Juan
7 years ago
Susan
Susan
7 years ago
Reply to  Juan

Good link, thanks.

The origional roger
The origional roger
7 years ago
Reply to  Juan

Excellent speech by this brave Belgian politician, but by the way it was received I don’t think it did much good.
Interesting times coming for Europe.

Barbara Spectre-Kalergi
Barbara Spectre-Kalergi
7 years ago

Christianity has become weak and passive. The Muslims and Jews would have filed 10 lawsuits by now, still this priest says he wants to pray for the vandals. To survive and protect its members from the engineered Islamic invasion and what is to come, Christianity must become strong and political as it was for hundreds of years. Those who engineered and perpetrated this are from warrior-religions who don’t bend over for bullies.

Dave Lawson
Dave Lawson
7 years ago

It took 500 years of muslim abuse , murder of men , rape , enslavement of kidnapped christian women & children before POPE Urban grew a pair of balls to call for crusade to get rid of muslims from Europe .

Unless christians and non muslims unite and learn to fight back , it will only get worse.

In Brussels ……Muslims were celebrating after jihadi attack , Imam refuses to pray for dead non muslims
…..and 2 days later Muslims sing Victory song and Idiot Loony Liberal women join

them http://tinyurl.com/zzkvxas !!

Not sure whether to laugh or cry at this idiocy and Betrayal.

Tiina
Tiina
7 years ago
Reply to  Dave Lawson

Lets hope it doesn’t that long this time. Though Jesus did wonder whether he would find faith on earth when he comes back. I hope that doesn’t mean that all christians will have been killed by then.

Dave Lawson
Dave Lawson
7 years ago
Reply to  Tiina

christians who are foolish enough to not get up and fight back will be slaughtered like millions before by these murder cult followers.

RJohnston
RJohnston
7 years ago

And so it begins….

Richard
Richard
7 years ago
Reply to  RJohnston

Begins? I’m sure you haven’t been around for 1400 years, but just when did you become aware? It began long ago.

Tiina
Tiina
7 years ago

Allah looks like a butt with an angry brow and a cyst on the side.

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
7 years ago
Reply to  Tiina

There is no “Allah”.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago

The Pope washes muslim’s feet, give him a pail of turpentine and get him to put his efforts to good use, clean up the statue the “religion of piece” desecrated. He can pray for the Priest isis crucified while he was grovelling before muslims invading europe

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

I believe the poop was also kissing the feet of the muslum slime.

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
7 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

All I can think of is the most deplorable filth on the planet when I think of moslem feet, that and Ebola, Rinderpest, Anthrax and maggots.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago

If someone leaves a pice of bacon on a mosque door knob, the imam of the white mosque in Washington, and all his dhimmis bleat that the perpetrator must be federally prosecuted. A Christina Church is desecrated, what are they doing in Washington? Handing out candy to those dancing in the street?

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

A non lethal way to disperse Muslims from rioting or attacking; release pigs into the crowd. I would also replace any torture of Muslims with them wearing a pigs cape and threatening to bury them in pig skin or even better a dead pig. I hope the pig’s soul wouldl be save being next to a Muslim. I’m very serious about these solutions.

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
7 years ago
Reply to  Stephen Honig

A couple of miniguns on SUV’s would disperse them much more quickly and permanently. Then send the pigs in to eat the bodies.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
7 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

The F-I-B offered a 5 or 10 thousand dollar reward for information on the baconator terrorist in Las Vegas, NV. Because three pieces of bacon across the doorknobs of a mosque is the kind of terrorism that gets the F-I-B motivated.

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
7 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

The Federal Bureau of Islamization has become a shameful organization. When I was a little kid, being a G-Man was every boy’s dream, now, not so much.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
7 years ago
Reply to  IzlamIsTyranny

FBI – focused baglickers of islam.

mjazzguitar
mjazzguitar
7 years ago

If it was a mosque the FBI would be there in a heartbeat.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
7 years ago

A note to the constitutionally uninitiated, your First Amendment rights of free expression stop at the infringement of someone else’s.

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
7 years ago

First I was a Republican ( the Democratic party of fifty years ago), then I became a Conservative and now only because of Islam I’m leaning towards right wing.

Dravaa
Dravaa
7 years ago

Muslims are masters of the double standard – everyone must respect Islam and Mohammed and all Muslims everywhere, but Mohammedans go around trashing, slashing, burning and blowing up the adherents and symbols of other religions.
Where is CAIR’s big flapping mouth for this?

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
7 years ago
Reply to  Dravaa

cair is part and parcel of the duplicity.

Joseph111
Joseph111
7 years ago

Trump 2016!!
.
deport illegal aliens
.
block muslim importation
.

IzlamIsTyranny
IzlamIsTyranny
7 years ago

“It’s disrespectful to every religion” what an ignoramus. There are no statues of the Virgin Mary on public display in muslum states, because they would either be illegal or destroyed in a hot minute.
Then again, why should anyone care if a statue is desecrated? If anyone cares whether or not a statue is desecrated above any beyond its material value, wouldn’t that imply one is idolizing it?

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
7 years ago

How is it disrespectful to Islam? It’s exactly what Islam ordered.

Find the moslem who did this. Burn him at the stake.

Oh, sorry, I meant to say “Have a nice day”.

Pray Hard
Pray Hard
7 years ago

I think you utterly missed the point.

Jack
Jack
7 years ago

No one has called it a Hate Crime as this would has been drawn an image of Mohammed for who there is no historical record of he appeared. CAIR OBAMA THE NYTMES AND SPLCENTER WOULD ALL COME OUT AND DECLARE ISLAMOPHOBE AND HATE RIGHT WING GROUPS FACISTS. POTOK ASALAN AND HOOPER WOULD BE FOAMING AT THE MOUTH CALLING FOR RESTRICTIONS ON OUR GOD GIVE RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH/EXPRESSION No one but Mary will call it a Hate crime and when 100,000 Muslims arrive this year it will be worse until we mirror Germany. They say it’s Fear mongoring so ask Ban Ki Moon if they even have Muslim Refugees in their 20s-30s single how many? 1,5? Percentage wise will they match Grmany or Sweden , Denmark to set an example since you are Sec General of the UN and talk BIG for others Japan took 1, the Gulf States and Saudi Arabia took none Maybe they know something we don’t? Why don’t you prioritize Christian refugees first since they face death? Do have some monetary reason not to save them?

Robert Griffith
Robert Griffith
7 years ago

This was a textbook example of Christophobia.

Ari
Ari
7 years ago

What the pope will say about this vandalism case of a Catholic Church? Does he still adopt muslims’ position and why the pope has not defended Christianity and the persecuted Christians of the Middle East?

Why the pope has welcomed violent muslims to Europe, which is disastrous to the European culture and Christianity as well in the future. Is he a Christian any longer?

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