During Christmas Eve Mass officers were called to Holy Angels Catholic Church ... poured whiskey into the holy water and threatened to harm the parishioners. As church goers escorted him from ...

On the basis of age-old custom, water is one of the signs that the Church often uses in blessing the faithful. Holy water reminds the faithful of Christ, who is given to us as the supreme divine ...

Thomas Campbell Bolling Von Goetz, 56, was taken into custody on Dec. 24 after incidents at the Holy Angels Catholic ... at one church and then poured whiskey into the holy water at the second ...

Later that night, during midnight mass at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Von Goetz allegedly disrupted the service by pouring whiskey into the holy water and threatening to harm parishioners.

At the invocation of each person of the Most Holy Trinity, the priest immerses the candidate in the water and raises ... yet in full communion with the Catholic Church: "For men who believe ...