The unhinged Leftists are attacking Christians again.
Years ago the Christian Churches in America would leave their doors open at all hours of the day so that worshippers would have a place to come and pray.
Now, Christian churches have to worry about deranged Leftists disrupting their services, torching their churches, spraying blood at churchgoers during Easter Mass, and committing other vile acts in the name of Leftist politics.
Anti-war protesters are led out of the auditorium after disrupting Easter services at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago on Sunday, March 23, 2008. (Tribune photo by Stacey Wescott / March 23, 2008)
It’s gotten so bad at one Florida campus that now armed university officers are standing guard during the Catholic service to protect the worshippers from deranged Leftists.
A student and former Catholic at the University of Central Florida took a Eucharist out of church with him last week something that is forbidden to Catholics. The student, Webster Cook, disagrees with the school on the more than $40,000 in student funds distributed annually to support Catholic and other religious groups on campus.
WFTV reported:
One week after a University of Central Florida student snatched something sacred from church, armed UCF police officers stood guard during Sunday Mass to protect what Catholics call “The Body of Christ.”
Minutes before the Mass began, Student Senator Webster Cook returned the Holy Eucharist he was holding hostage in a Ziploc bag ever since smuggling the blessed wafer of bread out of the Catholic Mass service Sunday June 29.
Carol Brinati with the Diocese of Orlando said the Catholic community was “concerned about the possible desecration of the Eucharist,” and pleaded for its safe return.
Cook, who was raised Catholic, said he decided to bring the Eucharist home after a church leader tried to physically pry it from his hand. Cook broke Church rules by failing to consume it immediately during communion and then removing it from his mouth once seated.
“I am returning the Eucharist to you in response to the e-mails I have received from Catholics in the UCF community,” Cook wrote in a letter to the church. “I still want the community to understand that the use physical force is wrong, especially when based on assumptions. However, I feel it is unnecessary to cause pain for those who are not at fault in this situation.”
Cook said some threatened to break into his dorm room to rescue the Eucharist. Brinati said the Diocese of Orlando didn’t condone those threats, but was happy Cook had a change of heart and returned it.
“We’ve been praying about that,” she said.
It’s still not clear if the controversy is over. There is no word yet if either the Catholic students or Cook will drop their separate complaints filed against each other with UCF’s student court. The violations each side accused the other of could result in suspension or expulsion. Cook still disagrees with the more than $40,000 in student funds distributed annually to support Catholic and other religious groups on campus, but seemed conciliatory in his letter.
“I want to thank the individuals who explained the emotional and spiritual pain my possession of the Eucharist caused them to experience,” he wrote. “They have demonstrated that the use [of] reason is more effective than the use of force.”
The Catholic League offered this response to the student protest:
“For a student to disrupt Mass by taking the Body of Christ hostage—regardless of the alleged nature of his grievance—is beyond hate speech. That is why the UCF administration needs to act swiftly and decisively in seeing that justice is done. All options should be on the table, including expulsion.”
The student says he received death threats.
Confederate Yankee has more on the fall-out including word that a nutty Minnesota university instructor is threatening to film Eucharist abuse for jollies.
(This post was updated and bumped.)
