At two Christmas Eve Masses in St Mary's County in Maryland, an obviously imbalanced man disrupted two masses. The guy's name is Thomas Campbell Bolling Von Goetz, aged 58 years. At Holy Angels Church in Avenue MD, the 5pm Mass, he dropped an onion in the aisle. When a parishioner followed him after that, he pelted the parishioner with tangerines.
At the midnight Mass at St Francis Xavier in Leonardtown, he poured whiskey in a holy water font. After a bit of a tussle, parishioners subdued him and held him until sheriff's deputies arrived. Kudos to the parishioners who took proper action and who didn't just cower in their pews.
I just looked on the Catholic Standard web site. They were quite efficient in reporting the death of former President Jimmie Carter, that just happened today - God have mercy on Carter's soul. However, I found nary a peep of Goetz's rampage and attacks on those two churches within the Archdiocese of Washington.
Had these sorts of attacks been directed at a synagogue or mosque, I daresay that the Standard would have issued voluminous tomes to denounce these hate crimes, and rightly so. Then why, oh why, do we hear crickets coming from them when our own Churches, and the Catholics within them, are similarly attacked? These incidents are all over the secular media, rendering the Standard's silence at best, inexcusably silly, and at worst, highly suspect. I think the latter is the case.
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