To Rev. Jose Pimentel, a priest who has led services at Naval Base Coronado and Naval Air Station North Island for eight years, the loss of his parish isn’t just a personal loss — it’s a loss of the 1st Amendment rights of service members on bases.
“One issue is discrimination (and) another is the violation of your right to practice your religion,” he said when reached by phone Friday
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What’s stopping these Catholics from going off base to worship?
For many of them, a lack of a means of transportation.
Way back in the day when I worked for the Big Green Machine (1965 - 1968) Protestant ministers could give communion, do mass and vise versa for Catholic priests. Also, Catholics were given an exemption from eating fish on Friday.
If they are working on Sunday their probably take lunch at 11am and go to MASS at the chapel on base...
To quote the article: “... religious services will be cut at bases where those services are readily available in the surrounding community outside the base.“
The problem seems to be mostly related to the world wide shortage of Roman Catholic priests.
So the Priest can’t hold one service per week for free?? Protestant ministers all over the country, for instance, go to nursing homes and conduct services, gratis. I do not understand why a Priest cannot.
whats stopping the protestants?...there’s some kind of protestant church on every other street....