Not willing to sit on their heels, Anonymous recently decided to bag the Vatican. They did so through claims of retaliation against “corruption in the Roman Catholic Church,” and Wednesday morning, they took down the Vatican’s website

Among the darkened websites include www.vatican.va and the hacker group also claimed to have taken out several others, including the website of the Vatican’s newspaper.

The hacker group responsible for downing the website is reported by AFP as posting a statement on an Italian-language Anonymous website,

“Anonymous decided today to besiege your site in response to the doctrine, to the liturgies, to the absurd and anachronistic concepts that your for-profit organisation spreads around the world,” the message posted said. “This attack is not against the Christian religion or the faithful around the world but against the corrupt Roman Apostolic Church.”

Also last year, a cell of the Anonymous collective attempted to attack the Vatican website but failed; looks like someone managed to make it stick this year.

Further in the AFB report, the Anons involved didn’t just stop at calling the Catholic Church “corrupt” but lay further charges on their marble steps:

In their statement, Anonymous went on to accused the Catholic Church of several historical wrongdoings including killing opponents, burning texts and harbouring Nazi war criminals.

The group also blasted the institution for “allowing its representatives to harass children.”

This has been a big week for Anonymous and other hacker groups–especially with the arrests of five members of the well-known group LulzSec, and the revelation that their leader Sabu had been working with the FBI. Another Anonymous cell also hacked and defaced the website of the security firm Panda Security, leaving a manifesto claiming that they knew Sabu was a snitch and suggesting further hacks would follow.