In an April 9 statement, the Diocese of Querétaro expressed its ‘sadness and concern’ that Holy Family Chapel in St. Sebastian parish ‘was violated’ the night of April 8.

Ciborium Stolen and Eucharist Desecrated in Chapel in Nicaragua The parish held an act of reparation yesterday afternoon followed by the celebration of Holy Mass.

A Roman Catholic church in Brooklyn, New York was vandalized and had its $2 million 18-karat gold tabernacle stolen.

A man went to a pedestal containing holy water and 'desecrated it by polluting it with urine,' according to the police report.

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Vandals on March 21 robbed and desecrated a Catholic Church in Odisha’s Balangir district in the Diocese of Sambalpur in India.

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As a child, author Daniel Torday visited desecrated Jewish grave sites in Europe. But recently the vandalism occurred closer to home, at a Jewish cemetery in his hometown of Philadelphia.

Is our intense focus on the form of liturgical celebration placing a disproportionate emphasis upon the Eucharist as the summit of Christian life?

Parishioners and clergy at a Catholic Church in Park Slope are reeling from the brazen theft of the church's historic tabernacle, a centerpiece of the altar that holds the consecrated Communion hosts.

The Diocese of Querétaro, Mexico, reported that Holy Family Chapel in Saint Sebastian Parish was robbed last week, its tabernacle desecrated, and the Eucharist thrown to the ground.

During the early hours of May 24, unidentified persons desecrated the chapel of Our Lady of Fatima in the small settlement of Campuzano.