Occupy SF: Protesters Take Over Catholic Church Building

Anti-Catholicism is one of the last accepted forms of prejudice and bigotry. This situation is a good example of it. The Catholic Church is a big, visible, and easy target -it's also the friendly family neighbor next door. Try doing that to a Jewish or Muslim-owned building ... Occupy SF wouldn't dare..

The Catholic Church is one of the biggest providers of food, clothing, shelter, medical aid and disaster relief - bar none, to anyone in need.The Archdiocese doesn't need to justify the use of its building or to have it taken from it. Occupy SF's action may be well-intentioned, one hopes, but short-sited and uninformed.

It's interesting that your article, Erin, didn't mention the damage done to the inside of the building by the Occupiers, like damaging doors, nailing them shut, etc., so the police couldn't get in to evacuate and arrest them. This was shown on KRON 4 News last nught, but, then again, KRON 4 is not a liberal newspaper!

The anti-Catholic hatred in this story is amazing....and sad. 

Hey Erin Sherbert -

Now that the squatters have been booted, did the Catholics squirm to your satisfaction?

Yellow journalism = effluvia. 

Wehre anyof these "occupiers" say, so to speak Catholic?

They were actually people from HOMES NOT JAILS.

they were actually people from HOMES NOT JAILS.

If the Catholic owners do not stand up for property rights and kick these losers out immediately, they'll soon own a Catholic sponsored flop house for junkies and other assorted riffraff.

Because the Occupyers have no respect for personal property and do not actually own this property, they have no right to turn down anybody looking for a free place to stay, and a lot of those looking for freebies aren't exactly stellar citizens.

Because these losers have no significant income, they'll have no way to support the community of losers that congregates there. The property, as Occupy has already demonstrated many times before, will soon be completely trashed, filled with shit and garbage, disease, rapists, violence, etc.

Time to end these games. The USA was built upon property rights. No property rights, no USA.  Being a good Catholic does not mean you have to allow self-entitled losers to steal your property from you.

This is ridiculous. If it were my property (will be if we don't stand for property rights now), I would force them out at gunpoint, per my right, and if there was any backlash at all, the Occupyers would immediately learn a very hard lesson. If these Occupy losers don't take care and begin showing respect, this game of theirs will end in bloodshed.

Thank you for doing the work in the streets Occupy San Francisco!

The Biblical "Give us this day our daily bread" sounds like panhandling in this context. 

No one whines louder than than an oppressor. 

Poor poor disenfranchised marginalized victimized wounded Catholics....I don't know how they can tolerate being so put upon. 

the most effective form of protest is quite simply to limit the amount of money you give the government.www.taxkilla.com

Let the lazy slobs live there if they want to as long as they want sooner or later they will get sick of each other looks faces,smells, feces and or starve to death and kill each other off just like at San Quentin Joint. when the food and Toilet Paper run out so do the good times. no one knows you when your down and out.

Many Catholics are Occupiers, the Nuns and Priests taught us that, we are all part of one family and it is our responsibility as citizens of the world to help one another.It is to bad that some people, liberals or conservatives do not understand the principles of mercy and acceptance.

It's so acceptable to bash Christians as Erin Sherbert demonstrates.  The intolerance of progressives is shown once again.  Ah, we love watching homeless people OD.

"We" love watching Catholic squirm? Maybe you do Erin. First they came for the mentally disabled. But I wasn't mentally disabled. So I didn't do anything. Then they came for the gypsies but I wasn't a gypsy so I didn't do anything. Then they came for the Jews, but again...do you remember how it ends? If not, it ends with them coming for me and you. Wake up and smell the lawlessness. If this group really wanted to help the homeless, I can think of a lot more effective ways to do that.