Catholic churches across Wisconsin vandalized

MADISON, Wis. — Police hope to search out out who vandalized a Catholic church in Madison over the weekend with messages vital of anti-abortion beliefs. 

Nonetheless, it’s hardly the one church focused in Wisconsin following the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s current ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade.

5 Catholic church buildings throughout the state have needed to cope with injury lately, which Julaine Appling can empathize with.

“I feel what we now have is a few copycat issues,” Appling stated. “If it isn’t the identical individuals, it is actually copycat.”

Appling serves as president of Wisconsin Household Motion, a company that strives to advance Judeo-Christian values, based on its web site; its Madison workplace was vandalized almost eight weeks in the past.

“It isn’t altering hearts and minds,” Appling defined. “It isn’t altering the state of affairs. It isn’t undoing the Dobbs resolution. It isn’t going to make a distinction in how we method laws. It isn’t going to alter our place or the place of a church.”

Appling continues to be apprehensive vandalism, like what occurred at St. Bernard Catholic Church, will finally result in somebody getting bodily harm.

“What I stated on the time was, ‘I hope it does not occur to anyone else,’” Appling stated. “Any person’s going to get harm finally, as a result of it is simply ratcheting up — the strain when this stuff occur.”

Over the weekend, abortion rights and anti-police messages have been spray-painted on St. Bernard Catholic Church.

Graffiti spray-painted on the entrance doorways of the St. Bernard Catholic Church in Madison, Wis. (Spectrum Networks)

“St. Bernard Parish is saddened over the graffiti on the entrance of the church,” Rev. Michael Radowicz stated in an announcement. “We perceive individuals’s anger over the current ruling by the Supreme Court docket, however this does nothing to unravel any points. We take part prayer for individuals who did this, that the Lord might heal their hearts. An investigation is ongoing with Madison Police.”

Investigations are additionally underway in Chippewa County, the place 4 Catholic church buildings have been vandalized with spray paint as lately as final week. Three of the parishes are positioned in Chippewa Falls, and a fourth is in close by Tilden. These church buildings additionally appear to be gratified by those that assist abortion rights.

“I feel till we are able to begin placing some closure on this, and discovering out who’s accountable, you are going to preserve having these copycat issues right here regionally, in addition to elsewhere,” Appling stated.

A number of Catholic church buildings lately vandalized in Chippewa County, Wis.

Police nonetheless need assistance monitoring down suspects in all of those instances.

You possibly can anonymously submit a tip utilizing the P3 app or contact the native Crime Stoppers hotline if in case you have any data.

Madison Crime Stoppers: (608) 266-6014

Chippewa County Crime Stoppers: (715) 944-3949