Doesn't look like a fire hazard to me. And since there is a tabernacle there, the candle should remain.
Posted on 05/05/2023 7:13:09 AM PDT by Twotone
There should be no lit candle.....period...common sense. The church has no such right.
Churches/religious people have no right to keep a candle burning in a chapel? common sense?
Well then you better get to work. There are at least 17,000 other facilities that need those candles extinguished. For safety reasons, of course.
They ought to shake the dust off their sandals, close the hospital down, and move on.
oh,pooh.
votive candles don’t burn down churches,socialists do.
I wonder how this case would be viewed if the hospital in question was run by an Islamic organization and blared prayers from a minaret five times a day.
Yeah. After all, the sound could damage someone’s hearing. Its for safety....
This is what scumbag government employees do. Government employees are the enemy. Massively cut government and send them to the unemployment line. It will be interesting to see if they can maintain employment in a real job in the private sector.
I hope they win.
Too much government overreach these days.
To paraphrase an astute observation from another Freeper:
When you take money from Caesar, you shouldn't be surprised when he forces you to act like a Roman.
Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in South Jersey has a tradition of lighting up her statue ,which is atop the hospital, whenever they perform a transplant. They lite her up during my brothers 15 hour liver transplant. Four years now. Still going strong.
Doesn't look like a fire hazard to me. And since there is a tabernacle there, the candle should remain.
Every person who demands or even whines that the Catholic Church must sell inspirational and precious items and give the money to the poor, unvented for drug and alcohol abuse or not, should be complaining about this that the church has to waste money on lawyers
Catholics recognize the real presence and signify it with a flame inside a red glass chimney
For millennia
Suddenly we can’t manage a flame
Is there any record of fires being started by these?
This explains why suddenly there is no presence in my stupid baptihospital suddenly
Now Jesus is no longer here in the Eucharist
Let’s see how that goes
They want Jesus out
Anyone who thinks this is stupid or trivial must listen to the exorcists. I recommend Fr Chad Ripperger
They will tell how the evil one believes in the real presence to the point of the possessed being able to choose a consecrated host out of a pile of hosts
This is one purpose. The government this pedophile gang of demonic election stealers driving Jesus- whome they fear and loathe- out
Make no mistake
You're exhibiting zero common sense. And nobody cares whether it's your period.
This is a case the government will lose. There are thousands of similar sanctuary candles in Catholic churches and other Catholic facilities that have been there since before the model fire codes were even created. The codes have always clearly provided for their allowance and the precedent is clearly set. That this particular candle has been in place since 1960, has passed numerous inspections, is installed safely, and even has fire sprinkler coverage, the idea that it suddenly a menace to society is simply ludicrous.
Yeah, that candle clearly has everything in the world to do with a hospital’s accreditation. /sarc
Why not? Is it some sort of saftey hazard? Can you provide any examples where a votive candle has burned down a hospital that originated from the hospital chapel?
How easily we forget that parochial schools and Catholic hospitals were established by Catholic bishops in the U.S. back in the 19th century because they had no interest in having their people ruled by the Protestant government of this country.
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