{"id":286637,"date":"2018-05-16T14:07:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T18:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=286637"},"modified":"2018-05-18T06:48:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T10:48:59","slug":"sick-statue-of-mary-smashed-hate-note-left-at-church-in-buffalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2018\/05\/sick-statue-of-mary-smashed-hate-note-left-at-church-in-buffalo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sick: Statue of Mary smashed, hate note left at church in Buffalo\u2014UPDATED"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_286640\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-286640\" style=\"width: 575px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/56\/2018\/05\/IMG_5902-001.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-286640\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/56\/2018\/05\/IMG_5902-001-575x385.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"385\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-286640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From St. John Kanty website<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>From <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/buffalonews.com\/2018\/05\/16\/statue-smashed-with-baseball-bat-outside-east-side-church\/?utm_campaign=puma&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=Facebook#link_time=1526478654\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Buffalo News:<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Someone smashed a statue of Mary outside an East Side Catholic church on Tuesday, and left an anti-Catholic note beside the pieces of the statue,\u00a0according to a Buffalo police report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis building will be destroyed,\u201d the handwritten note began. \u201cStop worshiping Mary. Worship God. Catholics are a man-made religion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. Michael H. Burzynski, parish administrator at St. John Kanty, read the entire seven-sentence note over the phone during an interview with a Buffalo News reporter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s neurotic,\u201d Burzynski said of the note. \u201cIt\u2019s a misinterpretation of religion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A 911 call to police at about 11 p.m. Tuesday reported the damage to the statue at the church on Broadway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/buffalonews.com\/2018\/05\/16\/statue-smashed-with-baseball-bat-outside-east-side-church\/?utm_campaign=puma&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=Facebook#link_time=1526478654\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Continue reading.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pray for the parish, and for the person who did this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> An arrest has been made and a suspect charged with a hate crime. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2018\/05\/update-suspect-arrested-after-smashing-statue-of-virgin-mary-charged-with-hate-crime\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Read more.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Buffalo News:\u00a0 Someone smashed a statue of Mary outside an East Side Catholic church on Tuesday, and left an anti-Catholic note beside the pieces of the statue,\u00a0according to a Buffalo police report. \u201cThis building will be destroyed,\u201d the handwritten note began. \u201cStop worshiping Mary. Worship God. Catholics are a man-made religion.\u201d The Rev. 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