Posted on 11/18/2021 6:11:07 PM PST by marshmallow
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand’s bishops said they will ensure that people who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 can safely attend Mass under a new system, while warning that unvaccinated priests will be limited in their ministry.
Under the government’s orange and green traffic-light settings that will soon be in place, all parishes will be asked to provide Mass for people with the proof of vaccination required for unrestricted gatherings, the New Zealand Catholic Bishops’ Conference said in a Nov. 18 statement.
Parishes should also provide the opportunity for people to attend a separate numbers-restricted Mass without providing proof of vaccination, it said.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the Cabinet would confirm on Nov. 29 its decision to move the island country of 5 million people into the traffic-light system — where red, orange and green signify the spread of COVID-19. The system will end lockdowns and use social distancing and other measures to limit the virus’s spread.
“We have been struggling with how we might best and safely allow for church gatherings to take place under this system without people feeling alienated,” the country’s six bishops said in a pastoral letter to New Zealand’s 470,000 Catholics.
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Good for the unvaxxed. You don’t want to contaminate the pure with the filthy vaxxed people.
We’re rapidly traipsing into the absurd here...
Separate but equal?
Thanks for begrudgingly helping the outcast.
Communist Jacinda Ardern
We are the leper’s of old.
What will they say when vaxxed gatherings become the superspreader events and the unvaxxed gatherings don’t?
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