Posted on 07/01/2020 6:29:03 PM PDT by marshmallow
Making access to sacraments more difficult
The U.S. Navy is prohibiting service members from leaving base to go to church.
In an information dispatch last week, "indoor religious services" are on a list of off-base places and gatherings that Navy members are prohibited from attending — alongside "parades," "night clubs" and "casinos."
But the dispatch goes even further, and says service members, their families, military contractors and others should avoid using "drive-in spiritual services."
For Catholics, this would include things like a parking lot Mass or a drive-thru confession line — measures seen around the country in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
One service member commented to Church Militant, "It seems to me this is the devil's work — to make this military completely godless."
U.S. Navy leadership has kept many ships at reduced capacity and has delayed personnel movements in order to deter the spread of the Wuhan virus.
The Navy is seen as particularly vulnerable, due to tight living conditions onboard ships.
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We usually had mass on base.
They had mass on base when Navy Chaplains were not Mullahs or Shamen.
Get rid of the Obama brass for Christ’s sake!
The Navy has locked down, hard, much more so than they Army and Air Force. Probably because of the experience with the Roosevelt crew and that Navy crews end up in unavoidable close quarters.
The Navy can’t dictate what family members choose to do.
When we’d visit a foreign port, you could bet your next paycheck a majority of the crew would be in the ‘off-limits’ areas. The briefers would provide us with maps showing where we couldn’t go; that was brilliant.
They have mass on base and all carriers. Also, most of us can’t go to mass either. My family have been watching on Facebook every week. One of my classmates from high school is a priest and has mass everyday in fact.
I NEED to know...who told Trump to hire Tillerson, Kelly, Mattis and SESSIONS? I NEED to know that person's name...
Are they public or private Masses? If public, indoors or outside Masses?
“In an information dispatch last week, “indoor religious services” are on a list of off-base places and gatherings that Navy members are prohibited from attending.”
So they are allowed to leave the base. Are people going to follow them everywhere they go? I would go to church anyway and say screw the insubordinate leadership. After all the top brass set the precedent when they disobeyed the CIC.
Huh?
Well in normal times they are inside. Now I’m sure they are online like all churches.
Will there be any sailors who dare disobey an order and get a court martial? BTW, in Olonapo Mass was off base. We didn’t have a Catholic chaplain on board Princeton.
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