Posted on 02/08/2022 6:31:43 PM PST by marshmallow
Along with all people of faith, we, the Catholic Bishops of Quebec, welcome the reopening of places of worship on February 7, 2022. We see this as recognition by public authorities of the importance of religious gatherings and activities for a large number of citizens. It will thus be possible for the communities to gradually resume their activities and thus provide support and comfort to a large number of people.
The resumption of our activities is an opportunity to recall the duty of the State to respect, promote and protect religious freedom. The Declaration on Religious Freedom made during the Second Vatican Council is very clear on this subject and we endorse this conviction:
It is an essential duty for all civil power to protect and promote the inviolable rights of man. The civil power must therefore, by just laws and other appropriate means, effectively assume the protection of the religious freedom of all citizens and ensure favorable conditions for the development of religious life so that citizens are able to exercise their rights and to fulfill their religious duties, and that society itself may enjoy the goods of justice and peace flowing from the fidelity of men to God and his holy will. [1]
The reopening of our churches is the result of the many efforts of the members of the Table Interreligious de Concertation du Québec, with whom we are in solidarity and with whom we have coordinated our efforts to insistently ask the government to reopen places of worship as soon as possible. . We have also insisted that people attending our assemblies be exempted from the requirement of the vaccination passport, aware of the negative effects of its imposition on our communities.
We recognize that many believers believe that this requirement constitutes intolerable discrimination that deprives.......
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“This is why it seems reasonable to us, in the circumstances, to agree to certain compromises to contribute to the safety and health of all. For a time, we accept that the vaccination passport is required to access a place of worship, even if this measure upsets us deeply. However, we remain in contact with government authorities to remind them that this requirement goes against our beliefs and to ensure that it will be lifted as soon as it is safe to do so.”
1). This is obviously not the Catholic Church that stood against Nazism and rescued so many doomed people during WWII. Shame on the CC for agreeing to presenting a FREAKING PASSPORT to be able to attend a religious service. SHAME!!!!
2). Hey, vaxxed and unvaxxed Canadian Catholics! Come to mass in Florida (and many other US states). It’s safe to do so and has been for a lonnnng time.
3). This Quebec Bishop needs to be defrocked because he is putting the STATE before God.
Odious creatures, the bishops. If they had just said no at the beginning, none of this would have happened. The state would have backed off, and private lives would have kept going.
But the very model of the modern bishop is entirely a creature of the state, thanks to VII and, more recently, Bergoglio.
It’s interesting to witness behavior of clerics in real-time that clerics in the future are going to be apologizing for.
Jesus put his bare hands on the festering sores of a leper...and prayed for his healing. He would be denied entrance into his church. how hypocritical is that?
LEX
“Jesus put his bare hands on the festering sores of a leper...and prayed for his healing. He would be denied entrance into his church. how hypocritical is that?”
Perfect post.
These are nothing more than feckless bureaucrats who would have been seen milling around in the crowds and campaigning for Barabbas on Good Friday.
They spit in the face of Christ.
UnChristian to the absolute maximum possibility.
Only jabbers and abortion butchers are allowed.
Well, this will only hasten the collapse of the Church in Quebec.
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