Long Beach Catholic school vandalized, religious articles destroyed overnight

Staff entered the School Hall at the Holy Innocents School in Long Beach, leading students to their daily morning Mass on Monday, when they discovered the destruction.

Video showed shelves, school supplies, furniture, audio equipment and religious articles thrown and, in some cases, destroyed, throughout the building. A life-sized statue of the Virgin Mary, with the school since its opening in 1958, was shoved to the ground and decapitated.

The church tabernacle, a fixed and locked box that holds the Eucharist...