Posted Apr 30, 2009; BY LAURA KILGUS, Staff Reporter; Rhode Island Catholic
http://thericatholic.com/stories/2111.html
PROVIDENCE – Catholics are urged to be aware of acts of desecration toward the Blessed Sacrament and encouraged to defend the Eucharist, the true body and blood of Jesus Christ.
This desecration is considered to be sacrilegious in the Catholic Church. It involves the destruction, maltreatment or malicious use of a consecrated or non-consecrated Host.
In August of 2008, several videos were posted on the popular YouTube Web site which showed various acts of eucharistic desecration. In one video, the Blessed Sacrament was flushed down a toilet. In other videos, Hosts were fed to animals, crushed in a blender, and pierced with a nail gun.
America Needs Fatima, a group that campaigns for the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property, launched a petition requesting YouTube to remove videos from the site that depicted the desecration of the Blessed Sacrament. ANF collected over 18,200 signatures in only seven days petitioning that all videos be pulled on the premise that they fell into the category of hate speech and breached YouTube's guidelines.
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