A waist-high donation box was stolen and a large, ceremonial candle was destroyed recently at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church.

“Isn’t that really something? It’s hard to imagine,” said Dick Flegel, a longtime parish volunteer who serves on the church’s finance committee.

Fr. Perry Kenaston said he noticed the three-foot-long candle missing about a month ago when he saw wax shavings on the carpet at the front of the church, where the pascal or “Easter”…