Originally published at The Catholic Thing
A Satanic group’s effort to conduct a “black mass” at the Kansas Statehouse turned violent, leading to arrests, while across the street, the state’s Catholic archbishop led hundreds in peaceful prayer before the Eucharist for those who “seek to mock our merciful God.” Satanic Grotto founder and president Michael Stewart was taken into custody at the Capitol by police; also arrested was a counter-protester, Marcus Schroeder, whom Stewart struck in the face after Schroeder twice sought to grasp a piece of paper from Stewart’s hands amid an apparent invocation of Satan.
