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Crime in churches: lock it in the safe . . . or lose it

Crime in churches: lock it in the safe . . . or lose it

Thursday, October 23, 2025
CHURCH crime is nothing new. Years before Morrissey sang of “lifting some lead off the roof of the Holy Name Church” (“Vicar in a Tutu”, 1986), the Bishop of Digne in Victor Hugo’s 1862 Les Misérables was letting the escaped convict Jean Valjean g...