DENVER — A Colorado Catholic church was discovered vandalized Wednesday with smashed home windows and spray-painted pro-abortion messages, not lengthy after the leaked Supreme Courtroom draft overturning Roe v. Wade.
Sacred Coronary heart of Mary Church in Boulder was tagged with messages corresponding to “my physique, my alternative” and “maintain your faith off our our bodies,” whereas a number of home windows had been cracked and damaged.
Mark Haas, spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Denver, stated the church was vandalized final 12 months with related pro-abortion messages however linked the most recent assault to the anticipated Supreme Courtroom resolution in Dobbs v. Jackson Ladies’s Well being Group.
“We knew that the upcoming Supreme Courtroom resolution would possibly result in this once more, so I can’t say we had been completely shocked this morning,” stated Mr. Haas in an electronic mail. “We’ve definitely had inner discussions on easy methods parishes can enhance their safety.”
He stated that the Boulder County Sheriff’s Workplace is investigating the incident, which apparently occurred Tuesday night time.
Mr. Haas stated he has counted a minimum of 30 incidents of vandalism, theft or property injury on the parish since February 2020, together with the pro-abortion messages spray-painted on the historic church in September, however that this week’s incident was the primary in 2022.
“It’s unlucky that the assaults in opposition to our Catholic parishes have resumed, and really troubling when our parishioners present up for Mass to search out their Church has been focused,” stated Mr. Haas. “We’ll proceed to wish for the conversion of those that perform acts of desecration in opposition to our church buildings, statues, and non secular symbols.”
EWTN’s @OwenTJensen: “[Abortion activists] are going after, focusing on Catholic church buildings [in Colorado], esp. when it includes Roe. That’s what they’re…specializing in.”
Psaki: “Once more, we don’t condone vandalism…It’s necessary…60 to 70%…are not looking for Roe to be overturned.” pic.twitter.com/BbgQFL19ne
White Home press secretary Jen Psaki stated at Thursday’s press briefing that the administration doesn’t condone vandalism after being requested concerning the Colorado church injury.
“Once more, we don’t condone vandalism. We condone peaceable protests. I feel it’s necessary to notice that 60% or 70%, relying on the ballot you take a look at, of the American folks are not looking for Roe to be overturned,” stated Ms. Psaki in a clip posted by the Media Analysis Middle.
A statue on the church was additionally spray-painted, as was a truck within the parking zone. Sacred Coronary heart of Mary was based in 1873.
The U.S. Convention of Catholic Bishops has chronicled a minimum of 129 incidents of destruction in 35 states and the District of Columbia since Could 2020, together with “arson, statues beheaded, limbs lower, smashed, and painted, gravestones defaced with swastikas and anti-Catholic language.”
A majority draft opinion displaying that the Supreme Courtroom has the votes to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade resolution, which legalized abortion nationwide, was printed Monday by Politico. The leak is below investigation by the Supreme Courtroom Marshal.
