A prayer service in the form of a purification rite was performed at St. Peter’s Basilica after a man desecrated the main altar. Startled witnesses, on Friday, New Zealand time, say the man stripped off his clothes, leapt onto the high altar in the centre of the church, and stood naked apart from his shoes Read more
In the aftermath of the fire that gutted a church in Cameroon, Bishop Aloysius Fondong of the Diocese of Mamfé entered the ruins to retrieve the Blessed Sacrament and found the sacred Hosts and the ciborium containing them to be intact. In a video released on 21 September by Aid to the Church in Need Read more
A New Orleons archbishop ordered the desecrated altar of a church to be burned. The Catholic church in Pearl River, Louisiana, burned the altar where its former pastor was caught having sex with two women. “His behavior was obscene, his desecration of the altar is demonic,” said Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans, who consecrated Read more
An artist who stole and sold consecrated Hosts for an exhibit has had the charges against him dismissed. The Spanish court ruled the theft did not disrespect the Catholic faith. The artist, Abel Azcona stole more than 240 consecrated hosts from Masses, taking them by hand and keeping them. He then arranged them on the Read more
A statue of the Virgin Mary has been smashed in an act of vandalism. Church staff noticed the shattered shell in its grotto behind the church building in Maxwell Rd yesterday after the Queen’s Birthday Weekend. Continue Reading and more