Two leaders of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops called for peace Monday amid a rising number of attacks on Catholic parishes and pro-life pregnancy centers.
“For two years now, Catholic churches have been attacked and vandalized at an alarming rate,” Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York and Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore said in a statement. “Only rarely have the motives been clear; when they were, it was often opposition to the Church’s teachings on life in the womb,” they said.
Cardinal Dolan chairs the conference’s Committee on Religious Liberty, while Archbishop Lori is chairman of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities.