Strange story from Decatur, Alabama: Church-service assault.
After communion at the 11 a.m. Mass, a man and woman came forward, screaming.
Then, to the shock and horror of the Rev. Joe Culotta and his congregation, the man turned over the cherished century-old marble altar. It tumbled down the steps and smashed onto the floor, ripping up carpet in front of the first-row pews.
Four people, all in their twenties, were arrested.
"They were screaming something about Catholics worshipping idols and other things…."
The priest speculated that the attack was a response to this article about saints’ relics that appeared in the local paper yesterday. A relic of St. Pius X and one said to be of St. Ursula were installed under the altar. It’s unclear from the two articles whether the relics were damaged in the attack.
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