This sacrilege has been bothering me all day. I keep checking the local news to see if anything else is being written about it.
What's puzzling me the most is the fact that the altar was split down the middle. Wouldn't that take some sort of large tool to do that?
Weren't the old altars made out of marble?
This church has been in the middle of a controversy regarding their helping illegal alien day workers.
see here
http://www.sqlife.org/hoy120402.htm Here is Newsday's report on the incident:
Church Vandalism
Check out the picture of the church windows - all of them are covered with bars. Farmingville is not an affluent community. The window bars (and alarm system that failed) would seem to indicate that this church was expecting problems.
It's tragic, none the less.