Posted on 09/22/2020 6:15:28 PM PDT by marshmallow
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco is urging Catholics in his archdiocese to “Free the Mass” and publicly demonstrate against the coronavirus restrictions on worship that are inconsistent with rules applied to other non-religious activities in the city and county.
On Sunday, Cordileone sent a memorandum to the priests of his archdiocese regarding the reopening of churches for public Masses.
“We can’t be silent any longer,” Cordileone warned his priests. “We cannot simply stand by while our people are treated with this lack of compassion for their needs, and this lack of respect for their rights. I have therefore formed a strategy committee consisting of both chancery staff and others, both clergy and lay, to advise me on how we can best make our voice heard in a peaceful but forceful way.”
The archbishop noted San Francisco Mayor London Breed (D) has been restricting the celebration of Mass outdoors to only 12 people, and has recently said she will be easing some restrictions.
Cordileone observed, however, Breed’s announcement read that “houses of worship will be able to allow” 50 attendees at outdoor religious services, effective September 14.
“[T]he civil government has no right to dictate to the Church whether or not it may ‘allow’ worship or not,” the archbishop wrote to the priests, acknowledging he does not dispute the authority of civil government to issue rules that apply to everyone in order to protect the public good.
Nevertheless, the archbishop asserted government “cannot be so restrictive as to effectively ban public worship.”
Cordileone is urging San Francisco Catholics to participate in the Free the Mass demonstrations on Sunday, September 20, when three parishes in the city will organize Eucharistic processions to UN Plaza by City Hall.
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He should make them an offer they can’t refuse....
“It’s a Sicilian telegram, tonight London Breed sleeps with tha fishes...”
LOL.
LOL.
There will be some sick fish if they eat that witch.
Don’t just protest the restrictions; ignore them! If the Church starts celebrating the Mass what is the mayor going to do? Is she going to send in the police and arrest every priest? A lone church would be hard pressed to defy the government. If the entire Catholic Church—hopefully joined by their Protestant neighbors—were to openly defy the government it would be the government that would be hard pressed to enforce its dictates.
Too late. Liberals have grown to like the taste of persecuting Christians.
AMEN!! TOTALLY IGNORE THEM!
For many of us, he is too late and he us still bowing to the State. We,I, need to be in the fellowship of the Church.
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