A Texas parish’s mural—described as historic in a local news report—was vandalized yesterday.
A repentant gang member had painted a mural of Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Corpus Christi.
“We have a lot of hope that the person who did this [vandalism] will repent, and we will continue to pray for them,” said Father Carlos Delarosa.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has documented over 400 acts of vandalism, arson, and other destruction at parishes and other Catholic sites in the United States since 2020. A tracker at CatholicVote.org lists additional attacks.