Anti-Catholic Attacks Increasing A 2025 statement from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops lists 387 incidents of anti-Catholic vandalism that have occurred across 43 states and the District of Columbia. These incidents include arson, statues beheaded and/or delimbed, stained glass windows broken, anti-Catholic and blasphemous graffiti painted on church doors and walls, and gravestones in Catholic cemeteries broken, toppled over, and defaced with swastikas and anti-Catholic language, among other forms of destruction. Sometimes anti-Catholic violations turn violent. Consider the following incidents reported by the Catholic News Agency of violence against Catholic priests in the year prior to this writing: •In April 2025, a Catholic priest in Seneca, Kansas, was intentionally shot, with prosecutors pursuing a charge of first-degree murder; •In July 2025, a Mexican priest from the state of Guerrero was shot and gravely injured while traveling to administer the Eucharist to a sick person; this followed the murder of nine Catholic priests in Mexico since the 2018 election of a progressive President thought to be soft on cartel crime; •In November 2024, a priest in Singapore was stabbed in the face during Mass; •In March 2024, Fr. William Banda was shot and killed at Tzaneen Cathedral in South Africa while preparing to celebrate Mass; •72-year-old Fr. Lech Lachowicz in Wroclaw, Poland, was brutally attacked and killed on November 9, 2024, by an axe-wielding intruder who broke into the rectory; •On November 9, 2024, several Franciscan priests praying in their monastery were attacked by a man carrying a club, a broken bottle, and screaming, “I am Christ!” Several priests were severely injured; a 76-year-old friar, Br. Juan Antonio Llorente, died of headwounds. Incidents like this, far too many to mention, serve to underscore the hatred demonic powers have toward the Catholic Church, her priests, and especially toward the Eucharist they serve. Here are a few recent examples of demonically inspired hatred toward the Eucharist itself: •On October 10, 2021, consecrated hosts were stolen from the Sisters of Maria Stella Matutina convent in Toledo, Spain, as part of a satanic ritual leading up to a “black mass” on Halloween. When interviewed by ABC News, Catholic Exorcist, Fr. Jose Antonio Fortea stated that such desecrations take place every year during the month of October “but the media do not usually report them;” •A similar incident took place at the St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Pocosol, Costa Rica, on October 19, 2022, when unidentified vandals broke into the church at night, forced open the locked tabernacle, and stole all the consecrated hosts. The parish priest, Fr. Gerardo Ortiz Marin, offered a Holy Hour and solemn High Mass in reparation for the theft; •There were numerous anti-Catholic acts that took place in Nicaragua in 2023: on January 15th, vandals broke into the tabernacle and desecrated consecrated Hosts of Our Lady of the Abandoned Catholic Church in the capital city of Managua; on May 24th, a ciborium was stolen from St. Anne Parish in Nindiri and the consecrated hosts strewn about a vacant lot; and religious rights lawyer, Martha Molina, had logged 88 other acts of desecration in the first four months of 2023, all linked to the Presidency of Marxist dictator, Daniel Ortega, including the imprisonment of priests and Catholic lay leaders; •On March 28, 2025, a Satanic group's "black mass" at the Kansas Statehouse involved an act of public desecration of a consecrated host; the group’s leader, denouncing Jesus Christ, took a host he had stolen from a Catholic Church and threw it to the ground before attempting to step on it. When a Catholic man tried to intervene to prevent further desecration, he was viciously attacked by the leader; •In June 2025, the 3,300-mile National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, marching across the United States, was targeted at several stops by a Protestant group called “Church of Wells.” Known for their outspoken criticism of the Catholic practice of Eucharistic adoration, members of this group lined the route with protesters using bullhorns to disrupt processions.