‘The targeting, the fear, the intimidation, it’s all designed to silence people of faith,’ said Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.
By Catholics for Catholics
Catholics are under attack.
A nonstop surge in violence perpetrated against Catholic Churches in recent years have led Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the former Trump national security adviser to denounce them as an “assault on Christianity.”
In a recent interview with Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe, Flynn spoke about how he realized that over 500 Catholic churches in the United States had endured damage from attacks, including arson, according to LifeSiteNews.com.
“The targeting, the fear, the intimidation, it’s all designed to silence people of faith,” Flynn wrote on X, commenting on the epidemic of brutality. “Fear is a weapon that only works if we let it.”
“‘Cause you think Jewish synagogues are going to be the ones that are targeted, and they are, but … the bigger issue is the assault on Christianity,” said Flynn, a Catholic.
Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court’s draft Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, the violence against Christian Churches, but more specifically Catholic temples, have gone ballistic, according to LifeSiteNews.
A report from the Family Research Council (FRC) from August identified 1,384 acts of hostility against Christian churches perpetrated between January 2018 and December 2024. The evangelical group found that 50 crimes were committed in 2018, 83 in 2019, 55 in 2020 and 98 in 2021. However, in 2022, when Dobbs was leaked, the numbers of attacks more than doubled, hitting 198.
There is an assault on Christianity. We have a responsibility to defend our faith. @GenFlynn pic.twitter.com/yjrEEkO7Uf
— Catholics for Catholics 🇺🇲 (@CforCatholics) October 8, 2025
These hostile aggressions more than doubled again in 2023, reaching 485, before leveling off in 2024 with 415. Of the 2024 number, the majority of incidents were vandalism (284). There were 55 cases of arson, 28 gun-related crimes, and 14 bomb threats.
In perhaps the most notorious and brutal attack against a Catholic church in the U.S. in recent years, a gunman killed two schoolchildren and injured at least 17 others in Minneapolis last August. The killer identified as transgender.
CatholicVote, a national advocacy group, has kept an interactive map that tracks violent attacks on churches throughout the U.S. since 2020, when mob hostility related to the tragic death of George Floyd ensued across the nation.
Having updated this resource on October 8, the organization documented that “at least 533 attacks against Catholic churches in the United States” have occurred since May 28, 2020.
These crimes included “acts of arson which damaged or destroyed historic churches; spray-painting and graffiti of satanic messages; rocks and bricks thrown through windows; statues destroyed (often with heads cut off); and illegal disruptions of Mass.”
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