The organizer of a “black mass” that took place outside the Capitol of the state of Kansas (United States) on Friday, in the middle of strong Catholic protests, was arrested shortly after in the Capitol building after hitting a protester in the face.
And Wibw local media video It shows Michael Stewart raising his arms and shouting in the Capitol’s roundabout, surrounded by several protesters who urge him to stop. A young man, later identified as Marcus Schroeder, tried to snatch what they seemed to be Papers out of Stewart’s extended hands.
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Videos and images that circulate on social networks show Stewart hitting Schroeder twice on the face before half a dozen police demolished him and take him.
Satanic Grotto leader Michael Stewart starts his demonstration, punches Marcus Schroeder after Schroeder attempts to take Stewart’s materials, and is detained by Capitol Police.
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Upon arriving at the gates of the Capitol, the forces of the order received Stewart and told him that he could enter, but that he could not make a demonstration. Governor Laura Kelly He had prohibited Previously the entrance to the building to all protesters.
Stewart had publicly announced on numerous occasions his intention to challenge Kelly’s order and enter the roundabout of the Capitol, saying in a live broadcast on Facebook that was intended to enter the building and “read sentences.”
According to Kansas Reflectorafter the area was clear, two other Satanists tried to continue where Stewart left him and were put in custody.
It is still not clear what charges, if any, they will be presented against the members of the Satanist group.
During the Mass at the Capitol staircase, before the altercation inside the building, a protester tried to launch on the unreasonable “cookies” that Stewart was trampled as part of the satanic ritual. Stewart hit him with his fists and the forces of the order took him, reported The reflector.
The Catholic leaders of the State, although they deplored the sacrilegious “black mass” – which is designed to protest and make fun of the Catholic Mass – made a call to a Pacific and prayer resistance.
In the center of the Catholic reaction, Mons. Joseph Naumann, Archbishop of Kansas City, Kansas, presided over a session of Eucharistic Adoration and Mass in a Catholic Church just in front of the Capitol. According to the reflector, “up to 400 people” attended the Mass in the Church of the Assumption.
Catholics PACK Assumption Church, directly across the street from the Kansas state Capitol, where a group of satanists are conducting their “black mass”.
The Knights of Columbus and county sheriff deputies are standing guard outside the church.
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Mons. Naumann, who He resolved a lawsuit Earlier this month after the satanic group testified under oath that he had not stolen a consecrated host, he had urged the faithful not to “succumb to anger and violence, since that would be to cooperate with the devil.”
A large crowd of several hundred counter -family members, organized mainly by the Catholic Group American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property, He gathered on the southern side of the Capitol to pray the rosary and manifest itself in defense of the Catholic faith.
Meanwhile, “about 20 people” appeared in support of the “Black Mass,” Wibw said.
Translated and adapted by the ACI Press team. Originally published in CNA.
Jonah McKeown
Jonah McKeown is editor and producer of Podcasts of Catholic News Agency. He has a master’s degree from the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri and has worked as a writer, radio producer and cameraman.