on duty? unless he was assigned to be there by boss, he should not have been there while on duty. Plenty of other times to go to church, mass time or not, when off duty.
http://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/canon-law/complementary-norms/canon-1246.cfm
Too bad for him it fell on Tuesday.
In either case, the day is "celebrating" something not supported by Scripture.
It's more evidence of the Roman Catholic worship of Mary.
As a young cop in a Brooklyn ghetto precinct whenever we worked Sunday day tours with a particular sgt. we knew we would be going to mass with him in a small and failing parish. It was an unspoken rule that we - about 6 young Catholic cops - would put $5.00 in the basket which was big money then. Most of the time we were more than half of those hearing mass. None of us ever complained and no one else did either. A 10 day rip is very heavy in this case so there is something else going on,- more to the story.
Sounds like more than one idiot here
I see nothing wrong with attending church
as long as he is still on the job.
But if he was a believer he would take
take the bad medicine and thank God he
was not fired or sent to prison.
If the copper was on Caesar’s time and dime, the copper should render unto Caesar.
I don’t know how it works but LEO have been doing other things on duty for a long time. When I was in college in the 1970s I had several Police Science (as it was called then) classes with LEO in them. They would attend in uniform with their radios. One night there was a murder and it just about cleared the class. The LEOs often got radio calls during class and would leave to respond.
We’re brain washed. We are barely recognizable as the faithful of centuries ago. Beard pullers are always with us, but we have lost our way when we live to work, at the loss of an obligatory mass.
An honor and privilege to be harassed by an anti-Christ heathen, who is your boss and the new Chief of Police, who whipped up a suspicious *rules* change that 100% affected only the Catholic cops. To be suspended by a heathen is a greater sacrifice, exchanged for a state of grace to be kept.
Not in a million would we even be discussing our pointy head ideas on this travesty, were the officer a Muslim.
Chiefy would have never made that rule in the first place, and certainly would not dare enforce it against a Muslim if one were on the force. Bank that.
It’s not like Catholicism requires no obligation to participate in certain masses because it’s inconvenient, or because you don’t feel like it, or because you have a J O B.
(Yes, there are extenuating circumstances, for surgeons and nurses, etc.)
The West has gotten entirely carried away about what trumps the practices of faith and obligation.
This Catholic cop determined it was not inconvenient to attend, nor was attending any infringement on his duty or his readiness to meet a call, and lastly he wanted to be in an obligatory Holy Mass and chose the better of two places to be. The coffee shop, driving out the gas tank, or Holy Mass.
Should the Lord have come an hour later, the cop would have been in a state of grace and the Chiefy would not.
Freedom of Religion is not a suggestion. Sorry to see comments that consider worldly work to be more dutiful than Catholic practices/ Thought we got past the value of placing thirty pieces of silver over betraying our Lord centuries ago.