A Hero for Our Time
COMMENTARY: Should Americans Memorialize This Moment, the Statue Erected Wouldn't Be a Man of the State, or of Letters or of the Cloth, but Ambiguous at Best.
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How Will the Vatican Defend Its Saints?
COMMENTARY: What is being done to try to change the hostile public perception being fomented by St. Junipero Serra’s posthumous persecutors?
Attacks on Catholic Statues Continue Over Weekend
Recent weeks have seen acts of vandalism and destruction at Catholic churches across the United States, including arsons, decapitations, and graffiti. In addition to the most recent attacks, in the last two weeks statues of Christ and the Virgin Mary have been attacked in Florida, Tennessee, New York, and Colorado.
California City Votes to Remove St. Junipero Serra Statue from Public Grounds
Despite St. Junipero Serra’s record of defending the rights of indigenous peoples, statues of the saint have become focal points for protests and demonstrations across California in recent weeks,
Catholic Symbols of the Faith Targeted in Recent Statue Attacks
One priest believes ‘that prayers and priestly blessings are always the appropriate response to vandalization of holy things and images of saints.’
Man Arrested on Assault Charges After Incident at St. Louis Statue
The incident took place June 27 near the Apotheosis of St. Louis statue, which sits in the city’s Forest Park in front of the Saint Louis Art Museum.
Cardinal Dolan: Amid Statue Toppling, Let's Avoid a Cultural Revolution
Many public monuments have been the focus of vandalism or have been toppled in recent weeks.
Healing Memory, Honoring History
A REGISTER EDITORIAL: Americans must work together to heal the memories of the past, and we must call out tactics that undermine, rather than strengthen, our constitutional freedoms including religious liberty.
Madison Catholic Bishop Condemns Destruction of Religious Statues: I Can't Remain Silent
Bishop Hying noted that every culture, country, ethnicity, and race “has claimed Jesus and the Blessed Virgin Mary as their own,” depicting them with their culture’s skin color and dressed in their culture’s garb.
