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Every week in France another church is vandalized. Altars and altarpieces are destroyed, walls smeared with excrement, crucifixes pulled off walls and broken into pieces, stained glass windows broken, statues of the Virgin Mary are decapitated, as are those of the baby Jesus, missals torn up, candelabras stolen, tabernacles to hold the host are smashed.
These acts are committed out of contempt and hatred for Christianity, and for Christians. For Christians, like other non-Muslims, for Muslims are “the most vile of created beings.” More on these attacks can be found here: “Catholic churches regularly under attack in France: report,” by Gaetano Masciullo, LifeSite News, May 28, 2026:
A church in southern France was vandalized as an “anti-fascist” group challenged the display of a Christian cross — signs of a growing normalization of attacks on places of worship and Catholic symbols across the country….
These “Antifa” troglodytes are far-left haters of the West, fascists claiming to be anti-fascists, and stout defenders of the West’s most dangerous enemy, Islam. There is no daylight between Muslims and those who call themselves “Antifa.” In fact, they frequently take part in the same protest marches against Israel, America, and what’s left, just, of Western civilization.
In the same time frame, Tribune Chrétienne referenced another incident in the Pyrenees involving a cross placed at the summit of the Aneto. The cross, installed by 18-year-ld French mountaineer Maël Le Lagadec, was removed and thrown from the summit shortly after its installation. According to the report, Spanish climbers later retrieved the cross and restored it to the summit. The episode was presented as part of a sequence of symbolic disputes involving Christian markers in public or natural spaces.
The report situated both the Mérens vandalism and the Comps controversy within a wider set of recurring incidents involving Christian churches and symbols in France. The report notes repeated cases of damaged religious statues and tabernacles, destroyed crucifixes, and occasional arson affecting churches in different French regions.
It also highlighted the frequency of such events, describing them as occurring on a near-weekly basis in various parts of the country. These incidents include the decapitation of statues of the Virgin Mary, destruction of crosses, and break-ins of church buildings.
Perhaps you are wondering who is responsible for all this destruction of Christian crucifixes, baptismal fonts, chalices, altars, statues of Mary and of Jesus, tabernacles holding the host, candles and candelabra, missals, stained-glass windows.
Nah, just kidding. You know perfectly well who is responsible. And what do you think the government of France is going to do about this? Here’s my guess: absolutely nothing. The state will provide no security guards inside or outside the churches. And will Pope Leo condemn this barbarism and those responsible?
Don’t be silly.
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