A pipe bomb was discovered Sunday behind a Catholic Church near a railroad tracks in the Holmesburg section of Philadelphia.
This from westernjournal.com.
According to WTXF-TV:
The pipe bomb was about 18 inches long [and] found behind St. Dominic’s Catholic Church, on the 8500 block of Frankford Avenue.
According to Newsweek:
A set of train tracks also runs behind the church.
🚨#BREAKING: Police have discovered a 18-inch pipe bomb on Train Tracks
📌#Philadelphia | #PA
Multiple Law enforcement have responded after a 18-inch pipe bomb that is capped at both ends was disconnected on the Train Tracks in Frankford PA and have been reported to have burn… https://t.co/Pgll7wRG78 pic.twitter.com/NveqHoOegU
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) February 19, 2023
Police said that a passerby found the bomb and notified authorities.
The bomb was a piece of PVC pipe with both ends capped. Police said it appeared to have black power on it.
I’m unsure whether this means ‘Black Power’ or was a misprint and should read: black powder.
The Philadelphia Police Bomb Squad responded and closed down the road by the church.
According to WPVI-TV:
The pipe bomb was taken back to police headquarters.
There was no official theory as to why the pipe bomb was placed there. Two major, but differing, opinions emerged.
Newsweek noted:
[M]ultiple social media posts debated a possible link or perhaps a copycat to the Ohio train derailment that led to a toxic cloud over East Palestine, Ohio, earlier this month.
"18-inch pipe bomb" found in Philadelphia, behind church, near railway track.
Behind the church is the railway overpass of Pennypack Creek. If the purpose of this bomb was a derailment, it could have caused yet another environmental disaster. pic.twitter.com/vU3kLUYGZf
— Michael Ferrari (@xMichaelFerrari) February 19, 2023
Can previous train derailments in past 2 weeks including the one in Ohio might be some terrorist activities?👇👇👇 https://t.co/YSi9XIGYl4
— AYDOGAN VATANDAS (@aydogan29) February 20, 2023
Nothing to see here folks, just a pipe bomb found on the railroad tracks in Philadelphia, our country’s infrastructure is totally not under attack by the foreign powers that control our government at all…https://t.co/QTIIyzImKC https://t.co/YmFsgOuRMS
— Mindy Robinson 🇺🇸 (@iheartmindy) February 19, 2023
An 18-inch pipe bomb was found behind St. Dominic's Catholic Church in Holmesburg, Philadelphia. Since the rumored & subsequent overturning of Roe v. Wade last year, Catholic churches have been increasingly targeted across the U.S. https://t.co/XPEk5rNZRo
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) February 19, 2023
On the website Catholic Culture, it was noted:
[I]n the past three years, there have been almost 250 acts of violence at Catholic sites in America.
The Daily Wire noted:
The pipe bomb’s finding came one day after David O’Connell, an auxiliary bishop of the Los Angeles Archdiocese, was shot to death.
Final thoughts: Perhaps more likely this was another attack on America and American culture than specifically the Catholic Church.
Nevertheless, it’s a shame our nation does not have a properly functioning DOJ or FBI.
God speed to Conservatism and God speed to the Take Back of our Constitutional Republic.
