[Hat-tip to Brian Kelly at Catholicism.org]
Spanish youths attack Catholic school, threaten to burn priests alive
Madrid, Spain, Oct 19, 2012 / www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/spanish-youths-attack-catholic-school-threaten-to-burn-priests-alive/ (CNA/EWTN News).- A group of young people shouting, “Where are the priests? We’re going to burn them at the stake,” attacked the Mary Help of Christians Salesian School in Merida, Spain, leaving one teacher wounded.
According to the Salesian Press Office in Spain, the incident occurred at 1:20 p.m. local time on Oct. 18, when “some 100 young people entered the premises of the Mary Help of Christians Salesian School in Merida.” Nearly 1,000 K-12 students attend the school.
“Custodial workers and some teachers at the school tried to stop the group, but 10 of them were able to gain entrance to the school building, shouting insults against the institution, pushing staff members who were in their way and attempting to disrupt the normal school day,” the Salesians said.
Principal Marco Antonio Romero told the newspaper El Mundo that the young people’s intention was to pull down the crucifixes. “More public education and less crucifixes,” they shouted.
The attackers carried flags from the Spanish Civil War, shouted insults at the teachers and professors and tried to steal several laptop computers from classrooms, the newspaper reported.
The red, yellow and dark purple flags were the same ones used by the Republican faction, left-wing radicals and anarchists during Spain’s bloody, anti-clerical conflict that led to the deaths of thousands of priest, seminarians, religious and laypeople between 1936 and 1939.
During the attack on the school, one teacher suffered minor wounds while trying to keep the young people from entering her classroom.
The Salesians said steps will be taken to prevent any kind of such attacks in the future and that they will be filing a lawsuit against the assailants. “This kind of conduct cannot be allowed in a constitutional state.”
One possibility is this being a test run by resurrgent communists, still highly active in Spain. The country elected one and now the apparatchiks may be testing defenses and monitoring public responses.
Too bad there won’t likely be any substantive word from Rome; beside the usual blahblah about “religious rights” ( submerged in ecumenism, naturally ) the fact that thugs, backed by obviously communist-leaning organizations, entered a Catholic school intent on commiting violent sacrilege will be, I expect, nothing more than a tut! tut! musn’t do that sort of response.
Really? What evidence do you have that they were Jewish? Jews are a very small fraction of the Spanish population. I’m guessing at the current Jewish birth rate you couldn’t find enough Jewish kids in Spain to form a “group”.
I would be willing to believe they were Muslim. This is more their m.o. But knowing the history of native Spanish during the Civil War this really doesn’t surprise me.
“Principal Marco Antonio Romero told the newspaper El Mundo that the young people’s intention was to pull down the crucifixes. “More public education and less crucifixes,” they shouted.”
I find it odd that despite both the Jews and Muslims hatred of the crucifix, Vatican II and New Rome claim they worship the same “god” as the Catholics do.
Pope Benedict has stepped into both mosques and synagogues and also the dens of the Archdruid, never speaking of EENS, but he, as yet, has failed to grace an SSPX chapel with his presence (despite the rosary crusades offered for him and the Church).
Beasts of the Apocalypse.