{"id":119941,"date":"2026-02-05T16:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/california-catholic-school-official-says-vandals-committed-more-than-material-damage-in-sacrilegious-attack-119941"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:07:19","slug":"california-catholic-school-official-says-vandals-committed-more-than-material-damage-in-sacrilegious-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/california-catholic-school-official-says-vandals-committed-more-than-material-damage-in-sacrilegious-attack-119941","title":{"rendered":"California Catholic school official says vandals committed more than material damage in sacrilegious attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A faculty member is opening up after his California Catholic school was ransacked over the weekend, calling the break-in &#8220;more than material&#8221; for the religious community.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/doj-opening-civil-rights-probe-after-catholic-school-california-broken-into-vandalized\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justice Department has announced<\/a> an investigation into the vandalism of Holy Innocents Catholic School in Long Beach, California. Tony Tripp, the school\u2019s director of advancement, described the damage as extensive and said the vandals ransacked nearly every room.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They pretty much went through the whole place \u2014 didn\u2019t matter where it was throughout there \u2014 and ransacked whatever they could,&#8221; Tripp said Thursday on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/shows\/fox-friends-first\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Fox &amp; Friends First.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/targeted-faith-overseas-persecuted-christians-get-white-house-welcome-under-trump\"><strong>TARGETED FOR THEIR FAITH OVERSEAS, PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS GET A WHITE HOUSE WELCOME UNDER TRUMP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Video shows classrooms torn apart, broken furniture and a large Virgin Mary statue destroyed. The parish\u2019s tabernacle \u2014 a sacred object to Catholics \u2014 was also damaged.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/leaders-desecrated-catholic-school-urge-prayer-perpetrators-after-mary-statue-tabernacle-destroyed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>LEADERS OF DESECRATED CATHOLIC SCHOOL URGE PRAYER FOR PERPETRATORS AFTER MARY STATUE, TABERNACLE DESTROYED<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The damage from the break-in is estimated at $100,000, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/news\/catholic-school-long-beach-severely-vandalized-community-suffers-100000-damages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fox 11 reported<\/a>. But Tripp said the value of many of the objects goes beyond material loss and that the damage was sacrilegious.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/faith-values\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">center of our faith<\/a>, especially the tabernacle; that&#8217;s the biggest thing for us,&#8221; Tripp said, adding that the vandals were trying to break the religious object open.<\/p>\n<p>Tripp said the school is calling on those responsible to turn themselves in. He speculated that multiple people may be involved and that the motive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/robbery-theft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">could be robbery<\/a> or anti-religious.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not sure what the motivation was, but I do know that we want them to obviously make reparation and change what they&#8217;ve done,&#8221; said Tripp.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-jokes-why-he-cant-sleep-planes-sparking-laughter-during-national-prayer-breakfast\"><strong>TRUMP JOKES WHY HE CAN\u2019T SLEEP ON PLANES, SPARKING LAUGHTER DURING NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He noted that, despite the pain over the damage, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/faith-values\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catholic community<\/a> has shown the school support, adding, &#8220;We\u2019ve never expected anything like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s given us tremendous hope, you know, that people still have faith and believe in God and are willing to stand up for their faith.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon posted about the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/aagdhillon\/status\/2018511445127033159?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">situation on X,<\/a> writing that the agency will be opening up an investigation into the &#8220;awful crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/california-catholic-school-official-says-vandals-committed-more-than-material-damage-sacrilegious-attack\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/california-catholic-school-official-says-vandals-committed-more-than-material-damage-sacrilegious-attack <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A faculty member is opening up after his California Catholic school was ransacked over the weekend, calling the break-in &#8220;more than material&#8221; for the religious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-119941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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