Hattip to commenter Greg Mockeridge. More of this please:
On June 19, the statue of St. Junípero Serra fell to angry protesters inside Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. On Saturday, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone visited the park where St. Junípero once stood to offer prayers, perform an exorcism and conduct other acts of reparation, in response to what he called “horrendous acts of blasphemy.”
In a video released by the archdiocese, Archbishop Cordileone said the toppling of the statue had affected him greatly:
“I’ve been feeling great distress and a deep wound in my soul when I see these horrendous acts of blasphemy … and disparaging of the memory of Serra, who was such a great hero, such a great defender of the indigenous people of this land; someone who was very much a part of my life growing up. I grew up very close to the first mission that he founded in San Diego. So it inflicted a very deep wound in my soul.”
The archbishop performed an exorcism for what he called “an act of sacrilege, an act of the evil one,” adding: “This is the activity of the evil one who wants to bring down the Church, who wants to bring down all Christian believers. So we offer that prayer and bless this ground with holy water so that God might purify it, sanctify it; that we, in turn, might be sanctified.”
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12For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Ephesians 6: 12
PopeWatch will be taking a Fourth of July hiatus until July 6, unless something major occurs, like the Second Coming or common sense breaking out in Rome.
Hopefully, bishops, like Abp. Cordileone for example, will remember this before linking pinkies with these very same people in agitating against just immigration laws and the just use of the death penalty etc.
Where was Pelosi?
Yes, the evil one is alive and well and dressed up as Democrat Party activists like BLM and Antifa. The good Bishop should speak specifically about who and what organizations are doing the devil’s work especially in his own back yard, e.g., Nancy P.
So, once toppled, where do the statues go? It’s not like you can just heft one over your shoulder and go throw it in the bushes
I say put St. Junipero back up on his pedestal and then say “Hey, kids, let’s try this again.”
Yes. “ I say put St. Junipero back up on his pedestal …”
That would be the right thing to do. Don’t accept the destruction. Rebuild.
So refreshing to see a Bishop with the backbone to ‘bish’. Bless him.
And yes, the statue should be re-erected once some sanity returns.
Archbishop Cordileone hasn’t done much good otherwise. He overlooks the wretched “Catholic” Social Services wild enthusiasm for all things rainbowish. He chose to remove a faithful priest from his authority over his parish school because the mostly non-Catholic parents objected to his orthodoxy. Big disappointment.