Bologna Cardinal Rejects Matteo Salvini’s Appeal for Open Churches

Breitbart ^ | 4/6/20 | Thomas D. Williams

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ROME — Bologna Cardinal Matteo Zuppi said Monday that he opposes Matteo Salvini’s call for open churches on Easter, saying that it is too “risky” and the Church has to “obey the rules.”

Salvini, the leader of Italy’s Lega party, said this weekend that people of faith should be able to care for their spiritual health as they care for their bodies.

“I support the requests of those who ask to attend Easter Mass, in an orderly, composed, and safe way, maybe even in groups of three, four, or five,” Mr. Salvini said. “You can go to the tobacconist because people can’t get along without cigarettes, but for many the care of the soul is just as fundamental as the care of the body.”

“I hope that we will find a way for believers to go to church,” he said. “An appeal has been sent to the bishops to permit the faithful to enter church as they are permitted to go to the supermarket, respecting the distances, with masks and gloves, and in limited numbers.”

Salvini was referring to a petition launched by Elisabetta Valgiusti, founder of a Catholic advocacy group Save the Monasteries, appealing to the bishops to restore Masses and the other sacraments to the faithful during the coronavirus lockdown.

“We appeal for the recognition of the personal need of every member of the Catholic faithful to participate in the Holy Mass so that each person can actively worship while respecting the current legislation,” reads the petition, which numerous clergy and laypeople have signed.

Asked what he thought of Mr. Salvini’s proposal, Cardinal Zuppi suggested it was a nice sentiment but unrealistic.

“I, too, would like to be able to celebrate Holy Week and Easter with the community,” the cardinal said. “But it is dangerous........

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Not surprising. Bologna is Italy’s “Red Fortress” (in the traditional communist sense).

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Bologna Cardinal Matteo Zuppi said Monday that he opposes Matteo Salvini’s call for open churches on Easter, saying that it is too “risky” and the Church has to “obey the rules.”

That not what the underground priests, bishops and faithful in Red China believe.

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An unjust law is no law, though discerning whether or not a law is just can require a good deal of thinking.

Furthermore, a recommendation is not a law. One may in some circumstances be obliged to consider a recommendation, but one is never obliged to adopt it without thinking about it in anything beyond a superficial way, which may be sufficient in the case of a just law.

But thinking is hard work.

Let’s go shopping (while observing social distancing in an unthinking way) or surf the net instead.