This summer’s iconoclasts haven’t simply directed their anger and destruction and fire at Founding Fathers and Confederates. They’ve also come after the Catholic Church, including its saints, its churches, and its savior.
Christopher Columbus, who named his flagship the Santa Maria, got tossed in Baltimore Harbor. Protesters in Missouri targeted a statue of St. Louis in the namesake city, and one allegedly assaulted two people praying a rosary. St. Junipero Serra’s statue in Sacramento, California, was spray-painted and torn down, and the Ventura City Council rewarded the vandals by voting to remove the city's own statues of the saint.-- More...
