Doesn’t seem particularly courageous of the Bishops...I think it is a form of virtue signaling that they choose to be stricter than is mandated.
That’s what it is. But the current pope seems to believe that the state is all, and these cowardly bishops are just following his lead. I have been impressed by some of the priests, though...they’ve just been out there quietly doing their job.
Well, until the parish Karen reports them, as happened in one church near me.