Posted on 04/26/2020 5:57:50 PM PDT by marshmallow
Perugia, Italy, Apr 24, 2020 / 08:30 am (CNA).- The president of the Italian bishops’ conference has written a letter calling for Sunday Mass to resume in Italy as the country begins to ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions.
“The time has come to resume the celebration of the Sunday Eucharist and church funerals, baptisms and all the other sacraments, naturally following those measures necessary to guarantee security in the presence of more people in public places,” Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti of Perugia wrote in a letter to his diocese April 23.
Public Masses throughout Italy have been suspended for nearly seven weeks after the Italian government issued a decree March 8 suspending all public religious ceremonies, including funerals.
Italian Prime Minister Guiseppe Conte said April 21 that the government will release a plan by the end of the week for how Italy will go about slowly lifting coronavirus restrictions and reopening businesses after May 3. This plan could also provide an indication of when public religious gatherings will be able to resume.
Bishops in Italy have been in talks with the government “to define a path to the access and to the celebration of liturgies for the faithful with less restriction,” according to an April 15 statement from the Italian bishops’ conference.
Since the suspension of public Masses, there have been a few clashes between priests and Italian police. Most recently, a police officer interrupted a Mass in the northern Italian province of Cremona on Divine Mercy Sunday because lay people were in attendance.
Fr. Lino Viola, 80, was fined $730 for offering Mass with six people in attendance whose relatives had died of the coronavirus, according to the National Catholic Register.
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Ping
Too little.
Too late.
I am sad to say.
The sheep have scattered.
Amen!
GOOD.
IN EVRRY PREVIOUS PLAGUE THE VICTIMS WERE QUARANTINED.
FIRST TIME THE ENTIRE POPULATION WAS QUARANTINED
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