[Flavious_Maximus]

When things like this happen it is almost always teenagers who live close to the area. Very likely, someone the parishioners know. Eventually, the perps will be caught and apologize for their misdeeds but nothing more will come of it.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

When things like this happen it is almost always teenagers who live close to the area.

That's normally true, and it may be the case here.

But I was able to see the news report, and the vandalism was very systematic. The vandals used a template and spraypaint. In the one church that I saw, the word "brainwashed" was spraypainted on just about everything, including every single step leading up to the church, perhaps to maximize cleanup expense.

My guess is college age or above --anarchists or the Occupy crowd. It didn't seem like the typical pointless swastika graffiti.