France Declares War on the Mass (Again)

Crisis Magazine ^ | 11/19/20 | Jane Stannus

[marshmallow]

Thousands turned out for pro-Mass rallies in front of churches in nearly forty cities across France last Sunday, November 15. France is currently enduring another round of lockdowns in which public Masses have once again been declared illegal. Schools are open, supermarkets are open, public transit is available, and you can even go into a church to pray, which you couldn’t during the last lockdown. But you can’t be there while Mass is going on. Not unless you want to be fined 130 euros and see the priest taken away by the police for questioning, as just happened in southern France.

Rally organizers didn’t expect too much in the way of media attention, for secularism rules in France. Turnout, though satisfactory, was not enormous, reckoned at a few thousand; most places drew two or three hundred protestors, with the largest event estimated at two thousand in front of Versailles’ Cathedral of Saint Louis.

But by Monday morning the pro-Mass rallies had become one of the top stories in France, covered on national TV and by most major outlets. Gérald Darmanin, minister for religious affairs, reminded everyone that he had a scheduled meeting with religious leaders on Monday to discuss “conditions” under which religious worship could eventually be permitted. (Spoiler: no concessions were made; the ban on public worship was, as anticipated, extended until mid-December at the earliest.)

Under lockdown rules, it’s illegal for the French to leave home without filling out an official form stating their intent to carry out an authorized activity. Form in hand, they may go no farther than one kilometer from their homes. An exception to the one-kilometer rule is granted for the purpose of attending a police-approved public protest at a designated location (you still need a form, though).

So the organizers of the pro-Mass.......

[Pontiac]

An exception to the one-kilometer rule is granted for the purpose of attending a police-approved public protest at a designated location (you still need a form, though).

I don’t suppose that the police would approve a protest mass once a week?

[ebb tide]

Ping

[Bigg Red]

Prayers up.

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

So you can’t even leave you own house without official permission?

Don’t you know the leftists here would love to implement the same rules here?