Posted on 02/16/2022 7:06:43 PM PST by marshmallow
Prelate forbade clergy from administering last rites during the pandemic
BERGAMO, Italy (ChurchMilitant.com) - An Italian bishop who forbade priests from offering sacraments to the dying during the coronavirus outbreak has suspended a priest for leading a pilgrimage against the nation's vaccine mandates and "Green Pass."
Bishop Francesco Beschi of Bergamo in northern Italy relieved Fr. Emanuele Personeni from all pastoral duties just before Personeni, the parish priest of Mapello and Ambivere, began his anti-mandate pilgrimage across the country on Friday.
"I will travel on foot or by bicycle out of solidarity with those who are deprived of the right to use public transport because they are not vaccinated," Personeni wrote on Instagram.
Personeni has "abandoned the office and the community entrusted to his pastoral care as parish vicar," a diocesan statement announced, saying the diocese is "renewing the appeal to vaccination as supported by Pope Francis and by the Italian and Lombard episcopal conferences."
Father Personeni's stance on the vaccine created "situations of bewilderment in parishes in relation to the behavior to be followed to ensure the health safety of the faithful who participate in the life of these communities," the statement added.
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The Church of Pfizer.
A real Shepherd, whether Bishop or priest, speaks and tries to prevent his little ones from being poisoned, killed or injured. Too many worldly State Bishops.
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