Alberta man charged with hate crime for disrupting Mass Jan 6, 2021 catholic news service Archbishop Richard Smith of Edmonton, Alberta, meets with parishioners after a Dec. 20, 2020, Mass at Santa Maria Goretti Parish in Edmonton. (Credit: Lincoln Ho/Grandin Media via CNS.) A 25-year-old Edmonton man was charged with a hate crime after he allegedly disrupted Mass at a church and briefly posted an obscenity-laden video online. EDMONTON, Alberta — A 25-year-old Edmonton man was charged with a hate crime after he allegedly disrupted Mass at a church and briefly posted an obscenity-laden video online. In late December, the suspect was charged with mischief to religious property — a hate crime under Canada’s Criminal Code — and mischief. Police have also banned him from Santa Maria Goretti Parish, the heart of the city’s Italian Catholic community, and he will be banned from all Archdiocese of Edmonton property.