A shame, espically since I’m guessing a very large proportion of people who died that day were Catholic.
*especially
A shame, espically since I’m guessing a very large proportion of people who died that day were Catholic.
There were also dozens of chaplains and priests ministering. How many orange robes and turbans were there?
I’m not sure what the objection is. In the East we still remember the canons against attending heretical conventicles. Surely you Latins don’t really want to show up at a “service” run by not merely heretics but actual apostates from any semblance of Apostolic Christianity. (Not being on the program doesn’t mean an invitation wasn’t extended: it could mean the local bishop took the attitude I’ve just enunciated.)
I googled and found there are over a billion Catholics in the world - a major denominaiton within a major religion.
It’s a shame, for not only those who died, but I bet many of the first responders were Catholic.
There sure were a lot of Irish and Italian names on the roster of FDNY and NYPD killed that day. And I seem to recall seeing an awful lot of funeral Masses being conducted.
Not that there weren’t all kids of religions represented among them, but to exclude the clergy of the faith of so many of the fallen is beyond insulting. Of course Bloomberg excluded ALL clergy and FDNY from the NYC event. Go figure.