profaned

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Though not precisely a Bible to modern man, the Flowers of Evil has been abundantly profaned by illustrators who interpreted it as high-class pornography.
Edgar Schmiedeler, of the National Catholic Welfare Council, said marriage was a divine institution not to be profaned by human meddling.

John Paul told those assembled on the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker that because work "has been profaned by sin and contaminated by egoism," it is an activity that "needs to be redeemed."
on May 1, 2008 By: Pope John Paul II Source: Catholic Online
Yet they are invited to join a global market under which, as Marx and Engels warned, "all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned".
on Aug 3, 2006 By: Karl Marx Source: guardian.co.uk
"It is estimated that no less than a million people were expelled from their homes at gunpoint, civilians were massacred, hundreds of Palestinian villages deliberately destroyed, mosques and churches profaned, and convents and schools vandalised....
on Aug 29, 2009 By: Samuel Kobia Source: Ekklesia