Secular Band-Aids Fail to Address Spiritual Crisis Behind Church Attacks
Catholic News Agency reports New York State Sen. Jessica Scarcella-Spanton advocating for government security grants after vandalism at Staten Island parishes. Incidents include defacement with human feces at St. Sylvester’s on Christmas Day, theft at St. Roch’s, and sacrilegious destruction during Mass at St. Ann’s where an assailant “snatch[ed] the missal and a cross from the altar” while injuring police officers. The senator described these as “vile acts” and proposed utilizing New York’s Securing Communities Against Hate Crimes program—yet this secularized response conceals the theological collapse enabling such desecrations.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Warfare
The article’s framing reduces sacrilege to mere criminal acts requiring state intervention. No mention is made of spiritual remedies like Eucharistic reparation, exorcisms, or public penance—practices mandated by decrees like Pope Leo XIII’s Exorcisms and Supplications (1890). Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) teaches that societal disorder stems from rejecting Christ’s kingship: “Nations will not have peace until they recognize the reign of our Savior.” By treating vandalism as a policing issue rather than spiritual warfare (Eph. 6:12), secular authorities—and the “conciliar sect’s” silent clergy—deny the supernatural reality of these attacks.
Silence on Apostasy’s Role in Inviting Judgment
While correctly noting the St. Sylvester’s perpetrator appeared “homeless or disturbed,” the analysis ignores how decades of modernist infiltration have eroded the Church’s spiritual defenses. The Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemned the proposition that “the Church ought to be separated from the State” (Error 55)—yet the senator’s solution entrenches this separation by outsourcing church protection to government programs. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907) warned against reducing sacraments to “pious customs” (Proposition 48)—a heresy manifest when “priests” like Fr. Jacob Thumma offer psychological excuses for desecration rather than calling for the perpetrator’s conversion.
State Entanglement Accelerates Ecclesial Captivity
Scarcella-Spanton’s reliance on hate-crime grants continues Vatican II’s betrayal of Quas Primas’ mandate for Christ’s social reign. Her statement that “nobody should feel unsafe where they pray” ignores how the “conciliar church” itself has made churches unsafe by:
- Replacing altars with communal tables (violating Canon 819 of the 1917 Code)
- Permitting Communion in hand against Pius V’s Quo Primum (1570)
- Embracing religious indifferentism condemned in Mortalium Animos (1928)
The Structural Apostasy Enabling Sacrilege
The vandalism’s timing—Christmas Mass—reveals diabolical mockery of a feast diminished by post-conciliar innovations. True Catholics recall Pius XII’s Mediator Dei (1947): “The sacred liturgy is intimately bound up with the Church’s doctrinal authority.” Yet the article never questions whether the attacked parishes used invalid vernacular rites or Eucharistic abuse—factors provoking divine permission for such profanations. When “Fr. Thumma” expresses bewilderment at the Christmas attack, he epitomizes clergy formed by the “neo-church’s” emptied sacramental theology.
From Sacristy to Statehouse: The Naturalistic Fallacy
Proposing “security, whether it’s people or cameras” as the primary solution commits the naturalism condemned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907). The senator—a product of “CCD” classes that likely omitted Pius IX’s Syllabus—prioritizes physical safety over the salus animarum (salvation of souls). Meanwhile, the conciliar hierarchy’s refusal to:
- Renounce ecumenism (Error 15-18, Syllabus)
- Condemn Freemasonry (Humanum Genus, 1884)
- Restore the Social Kingship of Christ
…has left churches vulnerable both spiritually and physically. Until the restoration of integral Catholic doctrine, no government grant can stem the tide of desecrations prophesied in Quas Primas’ warning: “When God and Jesus Christ are removed from laws and states, the foundations of authority are destroyed.”
Source:
New York senator pushes for more church security after crimes, vandalism at Catholic parishes (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 13.01.2026