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Brooklyn bishop disciplines pastor who allowed pop star to film music video in church

November 4, 2023 Catholic News Agency 21

CNA Staff, Nov 4, 2023 / 18:00 pm The Diocese of Brooklyn announced Saturday that a local pastor who allowed a pop star to shoot a lewd music video in the church no longer has […]

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Penitential rite held after naked man stands on St. Peter’s Basilica’s main altar

June 3, 2023 Catholic News Agency 2

Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica, presides over a penitential rite on June 3, 2023, two days after a Polish man stripped naked and stood on the basilica’s high altar. / Vatican Media

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 3, … […]

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Blessed Sacrament desecrated in church in Nicaragua

January 18, 2023 Catholic News Agency 1

Unidentified individuals on Jan. 15, 2023, desecrated the Blessed Sacrament in Our Lady of the Abandoned Catholic Church in Managua, the capital of Nicaragua. / Credit: Our Lady of the Abandoned Parish – San Rafael Sur

CNA Newsroom, Jan 18, 202… […]

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Tabernacle desecrated, consecrated hosts stolen from Costa Rica church 

October 21, 2022 Catholic News Agency 2

Communion Wafers. / Episcopal Diocese via Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

ACI Prensa Staff, Oct 21, 2022 / 18:00 pm (CNA).
A church in northern Costa Rica was desecrated Oct. 19 when unknown vandals broke open a tabernacle and stole consecrated hosts and va… […]

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Louisiana priest who desecrated altar charged with vandalism

March 22, 2021 CNA Daily News 0

New Orleans, La., Mar 22, 2021 / 07:01 pm (CNA).- A priest of the Archdiocese of New Orleans arrested last year along with two women after filming a pornographic video on a parish church altar has been charged with vandalism.

Fr. Travis Clark, 37, alo… […]

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