President Donald Trump is receiving a massive amount of praise from one of the largest Catholic advocacy groups in the country for taking action to crack down on anti-Christian bias, much of which has manifested in the form of hundreds of attacks on churches during the course of the last four years.
Tommy Valentine of CatholicVote said that the president’s executive order fighting against anti-Christian bias was a much welcome change from the previous administration, which did nothing to help address the issue. Valentine has spent significant time tracking the attacks on churches, noting that they were ignored by both the legacy media and the Biden administration.
“We’ve had nearly 500 of these attacks on Catholics churches alone, and hundreds of attacks on non-Catholic churches, and that just gets waived away,” he said during a recent interview. “It’s really frustrating, it’s really demoralizing.”
Churches have found their buildings vandalized and even set on fire. Valentine said that he has tracked these incidents, which most definitely have some sort of “political or spiritual motive.” Without including very minor acts of vandalism, there were a total of 78 attacks on Catholic churches in 2021, 141 in 2022, 108 in 2023, and 84 in 2024.
Guys, if you’re not convinced that progressives see you and your Christian values as the enemy, what do you make of this information? People need to be made aware of what’s really going on so they can act accordingly. We cannot afford to take this stuff anymore.
“In one instance, one man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for burning down West Virginia’s historic Saint Colman Catholic Church in June 2022. That attack occurred just one month after a draft of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade leaked in May 2022, causing a spike in violence,” the Daily Wire said.
Valentine told the outlet that former President Joe Biden “turned a blind eye” to the attacks on America’s churches.
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“Our second Catholic president should have known better and yet he was so thoroughly captured by leftwing ideology that he put ideology above his own religion and allowed our churches to be burned down,” Valentine remarked.
“Churches are supposed to be protected under the FACE Act, but the law has been disproportionately used against pro-life activists. The Biden Justice Department successfully prosecuted peaceful protesters who sat outside of abortion facilities across the country under FACE,” the report added.
The executive order signed by the president establishes a task force, which includes newly confirmed Attorney General Pam Bondi, with the mission of eradicating the bias against Christians and goes on to cite the attacks.
“In this atmosphere of anti-Christian government, hostility and vandalism against Christian churches and places of worship surged, with the number of such identified acts in 2023 exceeding by more than eight times the number from 2018,” the order goes on to say. “Catholic churches and institutions have been aggressively targeted with hundreds of acts of hostility, violence, and vandalism.”
One suggestion that Valentine made involved the Trump folks aiding local law enforcement in efforts to make arrests and prosecute attacks made on churches. Sadly, many of the cases go totally unsolved and no arrests are made.
“It wouldn’t take much of a federal response to send a message to people around the country who are thinking of doing this that if you do this, you will be prosecuted federally and could face serious jail time and I think that really would lead to a decrease in these attacks,” Valentine explained.
The task force has a shelf life of two years and must produce a report within 120 days on what it has accomplished at that point.