Don't piss off the Holy Ghost.

I love it!

Good for them!

"Father forgive them, for they know not what they do"

Crazies, all of them.

I guess the spirit DID compel them :)

GET THE FUCK OUT!

They congregated on his ass.

No, not literally.

I can't believe that psycho tried to confront the priest. The other parishioners carried him out of there like the dumb animal he is.

When did Catholics become the sensible religion? When I was a kid, they were the loons, now they’re practically pragmatists.

Yeah, threatening the priest was probably not the smartest idea this twat ever had.

Actually, I take that back, it probably is par for the course.

Carried him out like the trash he is!

The power of Christ compels you!!

This guy may not have *just* been an antimasker. He could've also been a local loon who had been previously told to no longer set foot on Church property.

My sister had a paranoid schizophrenic BIL, who during one of his active phases began showing up at the Catholic Church in his neighborhood all the time, including at services. The pastor and congregation initially showed compassion to him and tried to help him. However, his paranoia soon flared, and he became violent and started threatening them. At that point the pastor reached out to the BIL's family, who let the priest know that they were terrified of him and couldn't control him. The Church had to get a restraining order taken out against him. If he'd shown up at a service after being told to stay away, that priest and congregation would've reacted the same way the ones in this video did. (Fortunately for everyone, the BIL died of a heart attack not long afterward.)

makes church look fun again

It's ALL HAPPENING!

Love the guys toward the end, once the others have the guy way outnumbered, who run up just to join the beat down.

Audio issues here…is this in the US?

[quote] Audio issues here…is this in the US?

Washington state.

Good thing the nuns were not there ....

R6 I spit my Snapple all over my screen, damn you. Brava!

Hilarious

Not sure what's going on in the video, whether it's solely an anti-masker or not, but FWIW there's a sub-set of Catholics who believe the Covid, vaccines and masking are a sign on the End Time with the Great Rapture soon to follow. They also believe Pope Francis is in cahoots with the Anti-Christ and/or Satan which is why he is pro-vaccine. Given all of that, they further believe the Church as it is now is the "true" Church and they have to fight to bring it down.

Shocked they’re wearing masks! I thought God and Jesus protects them from everything.

What did he say to the priest?

Hope they took that loon outside and beat him until he shit his pants.

R23, you're thinking of evangelicals.

[quote]there's a sub-set of Catholics who believe the Covid, vaccines and masking are a sign on the End Time with the Great Rapture soon to follow.

I thought they WANTED the Rapture to get here ASAP? Now they're trying to delay it?

Wow! Four-point restraint! Who knew so many able-bodied *men* went to church!

Irish and Mexicans and French are always looking out for a fight.

Yes, I didn't catch what he said to the priest. Also, love how the priest calmy sits there as the beat down occurs.

I'm sure the men all felt bonded together after hauling that guy off the altar area.

R13 has it. It’s not a mask issue. Blue Shirt is a mite nuts.

[quote]It appears that this incident may have nothing at all to do with mask mandates.

[quote] According to documents filed with the Superior Court of Pierce County, Washington, a petition for a Sexual Assault Protection Order was filed against Fr. Brunet by a man on September 27, 2021, who wrote that the reason for the order was that, “My son will be sexually abused.”

[quote] The petition was rejected the same day by Pierce County Superior Court Commissioner Karen Watson because “The sexual assault protection order petition does not list a specific incident and approximate date of nonconsensual sexual contact” and “preponderance of the evidence has not established that there has been nonconsensual sexual contact.”

[quote] According to the petition filed by the man, he believed that Fr. Brunet “is unstabe [sic] after I confronted him at the Parish office on September 23rd 2021. He could potentially commit a murder suicide. Because he could or will be thrown out of the church.”

[quote] In the section of the form where he was asked to describe the respondent’s nonconsensual sexual conduct, it says that on one occasion in April, “During mass when priest (Paul) was at stations of the cross he kept batting his eyes at me.” He also describes “Previous dates throughout 2021 and previous years the priest would specifically pick me out to look into my eyes at the altar then look away suddenly. During Mass.”

For those who keep saying Catholics want the Rapture to happen, Catholics don't believe in the Rapture.

[quote]Good thing the nuns were not there ....

My thoughts exactly. The only thing that would’ve made this video better was to see a bunch of nuns in habits beat the crap out of him.

Touch me in the morning....THEN just walk away!

[quote]Yes, I didn't catch what he said to the priest. Also, love how the priest calmy sits there as the beat down occurs.

It sounded like the guy said, "I'm not trespassing!" He said it in a very low, creepy tone, like the way that albino stalker in The Bodyguard would say "NOOOOOO."

Jesus was ready to get down and whoop his ass.

It wasn't PRIMARILY about him not wearing a mask. However, the batshit insane stalker who was threatening the priest (and scaring the children off to the left) was unmasked and the only person in the place to not be wearing one, aside from the priest, who probably had to remove his while he spoke. Is anyone shocked that some wacko who would go after a priest also refuses to wear a mask? Of course you aren't. We would be remarking on and shocked if the guy had done this with a mask on, be honest.

We all know what the any-maskers and anti-vaxxers are capable of by now.

*anti-maskers

[quote] Franciscan priest Fr. Casey Cole lamented that violence took place in a church during Mass. He tweeted, “Everything about this is so sad. I don’t know what started the initial confrontation, but I have to think that there were ways this could have been diffused peacefully.”

Father Cole does not condone the behavior of the menfolk. Father Cole also should have said "defused."

"Shocked they’re wearing masks! I thought God and Jesus protects them from everything."

Um, you haven't noticed that Roman Catholics have been building hospitals since... forever? And that the Pope told everyone to wear masks and get vaxxed?

Y'all are getting Catholics and crazy protestant fundies mixed up.

Yeah, Catholics aren’t fundamentalist; they do not take a literal reading of the bible.

Idiot though he was, that ass looked good in those tight jeans.

This is Trump's fault for emboldening these assholes.

[quote]It wasn't PRIMARILY about him not wearing a mask

It had NOTHING to do with masks. The church (and school) had a "No Trespassing" order in place against this lunatic since October 17th. He violated it. Period.

Wow! What a fun church! I bet the chatter at the covered dish supper was wild as hell.

So does this psycho show up next week with a gun? Scary stuff.

There may be some Catholics who believe that rapture shit, but it is overwhelmingly Evangelical Protestants who do. The fact that it was entirely made up in the late 19th century doesn't phase them, but the fact that it has never been part of Catholic tradition would be a problem for most Catholics.

The Rapture enthusiasts should all just off themselves. They're such losers. They're just miserable people who are hoping to die, hoping everyone around them dies, and they can be rewarded for hoping these things. Loony, selfish fucktards.

Catholics, Black Christians and white fundamentalist Protestants share one thing: They will beat your ass if necessary.

That's why I think they all have a true religion. Not like those Episcopalians.

Ye shall know them by their beatdowns.

That's a pretty blurry image at R44.

Now THAT'S a altarcation!

More violence in the name of religion.

I love that the alter boy kept his hands in prayer mode!

His hands are probably tied there…

Just no, R4.

The ignorance on this thread is disturbing.

Don’t talk about The Believers here that way.

It is a mental illness; they know not what they do.

Can you imagine the carnage if he tried this at the bingo night at the Knights of Columbus Hall ????

The priest isn't wearing a mask, so how could it be about masks?

[quote]Yeah, Catholics aren’t fundamentalist; they do not take a literal reading of the bible.

Correct-- we need a pervert priest to interpret the Bible for us. And we rely a lot on the customs and traditions of the Church, which is about 2000 years old and full of perverts.

[quote]During mass when priest (Paul) was at stations of the cross he kept batting his eyes at me

*bat* *bat* *bat* *bat* *bat* *bat* *twinkle* *twinkle*

This reminds me of that video of that chubby girl pushing a priest off the stage because he kept talking shit about fat people only not as hilarious.

R19 R34 I imagine if they were there it would've been a reenactment of the scene in Child's Play 2 where Chucky beats Andy's teacher to death with a yardstick. I would've paid to see that especially if 3 of the nuns looked like Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy and Bonnie Aarons.

FFS. Read the comments. It had nothing to do with anti masking. The guy was just a nutrod.

27 men, then someone says, 'Call 911'. Pussies.

Why are they pussies? Because they didn't take the guy out back and lynch him?

I would guess that Catholics are more evenly spread across the political spectrum than any other religion or denomination (at least here in the States.)

I love seeing a church that has diversity. Even though I don't go to church, seeing diversity makes me think that they really believe in love and acceptance.

I went to Catholic school even though I'm not Catholic. Catholicism has a real romantic appeal, but make no mistake about what the church is about. Anti-gay, anti-abortion. Also, large-scale enabling and covering-up of pedophiles in high-ranking positions.

Time to put metal detectors at the front door.

[quote]R70 I love seeing a church that has diversity. Even though I don't go to church, seeing diversity makes me think that they really believe in love and acceptance.

Well, they did not believe in love and acceptance of diversity when they muzzled this poor parishioner’s FREE SPEECH!

H8ers!

Why is everybody so touchy?!

He was just trying to change his reservation, is all.

How wild would it be if the guy, though a bit ‘off’, was spot-on in predicting the priest had every intention of grooming the guy’s son.

When they take you out parallel to the floor, you know you’ve messed up.

[quote]I thought they WANTED the Rapture to get here ASAP? Now they're trying to delay it?

Catholics don't believe in "the Rapture." That's a Protestant construct.

[quote]”During mass when priest (Paul) was at stations of the cross he kept batting his eyes at me.”

Oh honey, if I had a nickel …

I grew catholic but in Canada. Yes, the church hated gays and loved pedophiles, but there really wasn’t a political conservatism that I hear about in the US. Most Canadian Catholics vote Liberal, by far.

Anyone who stays in that noxious, criminal world (The Church) deserves whatever befalls them.

And I hope it’s an anvil.