Newly Renovated Church at Marquette University Vandalized
“If I ever have the opportunity to talk to [the suspect] I’d say ‘Get yourself sorted out and come back and join the parish’”
The Church of the Gesu at Marquette University in Wisconsin was vandalized this week. The building just went through a $10 million renovation, and luckily, the damage wasn’t too extensive.
It’s difficult to understand what possesses someone to do something like this.
The College Fix reports:
Vandal smashes statues, overturns tables in Catholic church at Marquette
A Catholic church on Marquette University’s campus was vandalized Wednesday, leaving statues broken, candles strewn across the floor, and tables overturned.
Parishioners at the Church of the Gesu “were interrupted by a crashing sound” in the morning, Marquette Wire reported.
A bystander tried to intervene as a custodian alerted Marquette University Police, who arrested the suspect at the scene around 8 a.m., according to the school newspaper.
“Marquette University was saddened to learn that early this morning, an individual not affiliated with the university vandalized and damaged property inside the Church of the Gesu, a sacred space for many in the Marquette community,” university spokesperson Kevin Conway said.
He also stated that the investigation is ongoing and the school “will support the parish as we always have, bonded by our Catholic, Jesuit tradition and a shared desire to serve God in all things.”
Fr. Michael Simone said his parishioners were distraught over the destruction of several items.
“If I ever have the opportunity to talk to [the suspect] I’d say ‘Get yourself sorted out and come back and join the parish,’” he said.
“He needs our prayers,” he said. “He needs our help.”
NBC News in Milwaukee has more on the suspect and a statement from the school:
Suspect arrested after vandalism at Church of the Gesu
Police say a suspect was arrested this morning around 8:00 a.m. in connection with vandalism at the Church of the Gesu on the campus of Marquette University.
According to arrest logs, the suspect is a 29-year-old man who was charged last week with resisting and obstructing an officer…
Officials with Marquette University released this statement about the vandalism incident:
“Marquette University was saddened to learn that early this morning, an individual not affiliated with the university vandalized and damaged property inside the Church of the Gesu, a sacred space for many in the Marquette community. The Marquette University Police Department has made an arrest in connection with this incident, and the investigation is ongoing. While the Church of the Gesu and Marquette are separately incorporated, we will support the parish as we always have, bonded by our Catholic, Jesuit tradition and a shared desire to serve God in all things.”
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They trash religion, except one in particular, the one that is least observant of the ten commandments and the rights of human beings that are not male or do not submit to its ideology.
Maybe because they are the ones doing the attacking, there are a lot of examples where in areas they control they destroy other religious artifacts e.g Buddha statues what a thousand of years old
Weird how the vast majority of this vandalism and violence is directed at churches and synagogues, but not mosques. I wonder why that is?
I note the statue’s head has been chopped off. Now whose doctrine recommends that sort of thing?
I’m sure it’s a total accident that no reporter mentions his name, ethnicity, or religion.
There are many articles citing that the man was having some sot of “mental crisis.” When the janitor found him, he was yelling and flailing around, which is typical of a mental breakdown and not typical of a targeted attack.
As for his name, because of the belief of a mental breakdown, Marquette and the police would not be releasing the man’s name.
That is the remains of a statue of Saint Anne that was pushed over. Like any statute, the neck is the weakest part and will often break.
Arms and fingers are much thinner than a neck.
I have a St Anne’s medal in my wallet my grandfather carried onto Omaha Beach. I carried it as a paratrooper during a few things.
b/c jews attack themselves says tucker joe kent and candace ,,for starters
A lot of the self-hating ones – in fact – DO attack themselves.
Because in the case of churches, they know there are attitudes expressed as follows: “If I ever have the opportunity to talk to [the suspect] I’d say ‘Get yourself sorted out and come back and join the parish’”.
Turning the other cheek.
As for Jews, I have no sense of what is going on inside the walls of synagogues as I gave up on the entire thing in 1977. I would like to at least believe that folks like the Chabad have some plans up their sleeves. I just don’t know.
As for the moslems? Their mosques are not attacked because the cowards who do this sort of thing KNOW that in at least some cases they will be sought out and, er, dealt with in a very nasty way, either involving machetes, or detonation cord wrapped around their necks and a plunger being pushed.
Mostly that’s true but it is also usually restricted away from rural areas or Christian denominations with a congregation willing to act today and ask for forgiveness tomorrow. Some congregations would see it as positive/helpful thing to ‘send him to find Jesus’. There’s at least three of those within a 30 minute drive of my property which would ‘send him to meet his Saviour’.
Decades ago, I met Jesus. An amazing man, full of wisdom and good conversation. Jesus García; ran a really top-notch auto upholstery shop in San Fernando. His amigos called him Chuy.
This would be a one way trip to his namesake via the mortuary.
Funny story, my Dad got called back to AD during the Berlin Crisis and they combined an Alabama and a NJ Air Guard units into one Task Organized unit. He was the field of 1SG calling roll and pronounced some NJ dudes name not as Je-sus as but as Jesus. Dad could be kinda a lot to take at times but I’m a better person for it.
Even more weird that we don’t have a name or picture of the arrested person. Draw your own conclusions
giving 7000000-1 oddds if you guessed the vandalizers were israelis
Maybe Candace, Tucker, or Megyn have a handle on it.
Are we officially at The Motive May Never Be Known (TM) stage yet?
No, but I am hearing vague rumblings about Lone Wolves and No Known Motive.
Name please?
It’s either some version of “Mohammed” or a guy who wants to be called a woman’s name.
Darned Amish are out of control again. /s
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Meh, I ain’t skeered of the Amish…. not until they start blasting out Freebird by Skynard, when that happens y’all are on your own ’cause I’m out.
You have to be twisted to the point you need removed from society for stupidity like that.
I remember Dr. Scott Hahn mentioned attending this parish in his conversion speech, that he went there for his first mass to observe what Catholics did as a sort of National Geographic field study but ended up wanting to officially convert at the end of mass.
I grew up in Milwaukee, the Marquette Jesuits are as left as left can be
Pope Francis is a good example of the SJW Jesuit’s.
Getting to know this site. There won’t be 100 lengthy, impassioned posts because it’s only those Catholics being attacked.
Well, you need to get to know this site a little better, then. Anti-Catholicism is despicable.
In the despicable beauty contest it wins a distant second place here.
From Breitbart
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Marquette University police have yet to release the suspect’s motivation for the attack.
Fr. Simone said he didn’t believe the vandalism was an act of anti-Catholic violence
Catholic advocacy organization Catholic Votes said there have been at least 547 attacks on Catholic churches in 43 states since early 2020.
“Marquette University police have yet to release the suspect’s motivation for the attack.”
Because it’s definitely not a trannifesto, or anything like that.
Time to release the name of the suspect.
Btw, thankfully not a lot of “extensive damage” occurred, but that should not be the major concern. The main point is that the church was targeted and one can make a reasonable guess as to what the motivation was. Time’s up. Release the facts.
When they don’t release the name, it’s a tell. Also, for those who don’t know MKE, Marquette is in the ghetto. Enough said?
The perp is most likely a Christian, IMO. Democrats have a way with turning individuals against their own race, their own country, their own family, their own religion. That’s how Marxism operates.
It’s the Name Game, we know but won’t tell you because that will give up our game.
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