Is there anything sadder than the destruction of a church, its grand and glorious exterior reduced to rubble, its interior left in piles of debris, precious icons and paintings and statues gone?
The world wept when the incomparable Notre Dame Cathedral was mortally wounded by flames in Paris. Just recently, a magnificent church in Ukraine was rocked by a Russian missile strike. Horrified Ukrainians gazed upon the great altar knocked askew while marble and concrete lay scattered everywhere.
