Houston, TX:
Just weeks after being appointed a new young pastor, parishioners at St. Agatha Catholic Church in Houston, Texas were baffled this morning when they saw a large, gold, "magical box-looking thingy" sitting directly behind the altar as they entered St. Agatha Catholic Church. "Well, we all walked in to church this morning and saw this golden box placed right where our old pastor, Fr. Rick, sat during the Mass," a visibly shaken parishioner Carli Welk told reporters.
And we all just looked at each other and were all like, "What
is that?" I told everyone to slowly back away from it."
Welk is now being heralded as a hero after calmly rushing all of the parishioners outside where she proceded to dial 9-1-1.
"I don't consider myself a hero," she later reported to a local Houston news affiliate. "I just did what I had to, you know? We didn't know what was in there or whether the thing itself was dangerous.
Some thought it was just an ornate refrigerator carrying some kind of …
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