Man Reportedly Arrested After Allegedly Destroying Altar At Catholic Church
27th October 2020
The vandalism follows more than a dozen other crimes targeting Catholic Churches across the country, prompting lawmakers to call on federal authorities to investigate the incidents as religiously motivated. Most recently, the New York Police Department investigated a vandalism at a Brooklyn church in October, where a Virgin Mary statue had its hand cut off and was cracked along the head, according to ABC 7. A few weeks prior, police in San Antonio investigated vandalism at a Catholic seminary where glass doors were struck and damaged, and a crucifix was desecrated.
Maybe he was a fan of the pre-Vatican II liturgy and wanted the altar turned back around the way it was for the first 1900 years of Church history. Such people exist; I have met them.