RECENT NEWS FOR OUR FAITH-BASED READERS AND HISTORY BUFFS TOO, STATUE REMOVALS IN CALIFORNIA, ETC., MORE RIOTING, PROTESTS ETC.

--Fresno students call for the removal of Ghandi statue; Campus Reform; more here

--From the 7/5 St. Augustine bulletin; THE SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO MISSION HAS BEEN FORCED TO RELOCATE THE ST. JUNIPERO SERRA STATUES FOR THEIR PROTECTION.... Two statues of St. Junipero Serra have been moved from a Catholic mission and church in southern California amid fears of vandalism as protests around the state continue to topple statues. 

7/12 UPDATE--MISSION FIRE, MUCH DESTROYED; MORE HERE 

--NAIVE YOUNG PRIEST, Tries to reason with the statue destroying, book burners, the St. Louis statue, video from Tom Faranda's Folly here.

--WALL STREET JOURNAL; Cardinal Dolan column: "The destruction of monuments only impoverishes our sense of history." READ MORE AT https://tomfaranda.typepad.com/folly/2020/06/cardinal-dolan-column-the-destruction-of-monuments-only-impoverishes-our-sense-of-history.html

--BOOK BURNING NOW EXTENDS TO RELIGIOUS IMAGES, STAINED GLASS WINDOWS, JESUS IS RACIST, NEWSWEEK.... Many thanks to a local resident for the heads up about recent "commentary" from BLM activist Shaun King. Among the tidbits from Mr. King, according to Newsweek and his "twitter" account: King "remarked that stained glass windows and other images of a white Jesus, his white mother and "their white friends" should all be destroyed, insisting they are "racist propaganda" and "a gross form of white supremacy." You can read it all at https://www.newsweek.com/white-jesus-statues-should-torn-down-black-lives-matters-leader-says-1512674

--CONFIRMED MULTIPLE SOURCES--TWITTER, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, THE FEDERALIST, ETC---DNC TWEETS THAT MOUNT RUSHMORE, JULY 4TH IS WHITE SUPREMACY, THEN DELETES IT. MORE AT https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2020/06/sad-news-demoracts-tweet-then-delete.html

AND ON A HAPPIER NOTE: 

NOW MORE THAN EVER--1976--BY SPECIAL REQUEST - CROTON'S BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2020/07/now-more-than-ever-1976-by-special.html