
‘A Blow From the Devil’: Shattered Fatima Statue found in Ukrainian Catholic Seminary Occupied by Russians
“I am not particularly prone to put things in such supernatural terms, but this affair struck me as very unusual.”
“I am not particularly prone to put things in such supernatural terms, but this affair struck me as very unusual.”
Since the invasion began, Lviv has become a “western capital” of the country as Kyiv, the capital, came under attack.
In a July 5 statement, Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento said that while “the group’s actions may have been meant to draw attention to the sorrowful, angry memories over California’s past,” their “act of vandalism does little to build the future.”
The archbishop’s statement came after a statue of St. Junipero Serra was torn down in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park Friday, along with statues of Francis Scott Key and Ulysses S. Grant.
During the eighteenth century, the saint founded nine Catholic missions in the area that would later become California, many of those missions would go on to become the centers of major California cities.
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