Cordileone Leads the Way [in Ignoring Prohibition of Indoor Worship] in San Francisco

California Catholic Daily ^ | 12/28/20 | Gibbons Cooney

[marshmallow]

Churches ignore restrictions, celebrate indoors on Christmas

On Christmas at least four San Francisco churches, including the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, ignored San Francisco’s restrictions on religious services and celebrated the Christmas Vigil and Christmas Masses indoors. In addition to the cathedral, St. Dominic’s, Most Holy Redeemer, and Star of the Sea all refused to knuckle under to the city’s December 23 order restricting indoor worship and welcomed their flocks into their churches to celebrate the Nativity of the Lord.

The archbishop had responded by acknowledging the order and reminded his pastors that the celebration of Mass indoors was at their individual discretion:

“Yesterday evening, shortly after the District Court’s decision denying a preliminary injunction in the Harvest Rock Church case, the legal counsel for the archdiocese, Paula Carney, received a letter from the city attorney’s office, claiming that, despite other court rulings and varying health orders around the state, indoor worship services are still prohibited in the city and county of San Francisco, and asking me to modify my last instruction (allowing worship indoors at the pastor’s discretion) to you.” Archbishop Cordileone noted that the letter was unique to the city and county of San Francisco, and that he had received no such communication from the other two counties in the archdiocese: “We have received no such letter from any authority in Marin or San Mateo counties.”

Archdiocesan counsel Paula Carney responded to the city of San Francisco:

“The law on this issue in California remains far from clear. In fact, Los Angeles County lifted bans on indoor worship, as has every state in the U.S. except California.

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Interesting that this man’s name, translated from the Italian, means “Lion-hearted”.

Some people really do live up to their names, I guess.

[faithhopecharity]

Great! The shopping malls are jammed packed with thousands of people and the californication political hacks want to close down the churches.

[Amendment10]

Regarding states that are run by desperate Democrats who like to boss citizens around, especially in an “Orange Man Bad” election year pandemic, patriots need to work with their respective state lawmakers to amend their state constitutions as follows.

State health officials need to be elected by popular vote. And time-limited by law lockdowns ordered by governors, mayors and health officials need to automatically trigger recall elections.

And speaking of recall elections, state constitutions also need to be amended to require candidates for public office to first escrow a refundable “recall deposit,” amounts determined by law, to pay for their own recall elections.

[livius]

Cordileone is what a bishop should be. There aren’t a lot of them, alas, but it kinda restores your faith to see at least one lion-hearted bishop.

[left that other site]

Indeed.

[Ann Archy]

I talked with him for about half hour right after he was moved from Oakland to SF.....he’s a GREAT man!!