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Catholic Priests Who Have Maskless Moms Arrested Are Tyrants, Not HeroesPastors who bully parishioners over masks appear to have forgotten the soul-saving mission of the church, and are instead tyrannizing those they should serve.Despite Texas Gov. Greg Abbot’s repeal of the state mask mandate, a pregnant Catholic mother was kicked out of Mass in the Diocese of Dallas for failing to wear a mask.Father Milton Ryan, pastor of Holy Trinity Catholic Parish, is alleged to have called the police while the service was underway and have the young mother threatened with arrest for trespass. Deidre Hairston returned to her pew...

[Catholic Caucus] Can COVID hysteria endanger one’s soul?Catholic social media has been all abuzz in recent days over a NJ parish, Church of the Precious Blood in Monmouth Beach, that had issued the following announcement on its website over the weekend:Confessions Are Now Available for Those Who Are VaccinatedOnly those vaccinated may come to the Sacrament of Penance in order to protect yourself, and more importantly, to protect others in case you are asymptomatic and contagious.Penance Passports. What a concept! Following the uproar that predictably ensued, the policy was swiftly changed, with the Diocese of Trenton announcing via Twitter on...

Catholic parish bans Confession for unvaccinated, reverses course after bishop steps inThe diocese informed the priest that he cannot put such a condition for the reception of the Sacrament of Penance.MONMOUTH BEACH, New Jersey, March 29, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – A Catholic parish in New Jersey announced this week that it would only allow those who had been vaccinated to receive the sacrament of Confession. After LifeSiteNews began investigating the matter this morning, reaching out to the parish priest and the local bishop for comment, the parish suddenly altered course and will now allow confessions for everyone.The Church of the Precious...

Maskless priest has homeschooling mom of 11 arrested for not masking in churchKANSAS CITY, Kansas, March 25, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — It was Halloween when Jane Bernardel, a homeschooling mom of 11, was hauled away by police for praying in an empty church without a mask.It’s a Bernardel family tradition to attend Vespers and recitations of the litany of the saints on Halloween, the eve of the great feast of All Saints, to sanctify a day they see as having been secularized. On Halloween 2020, Bernardel and some of her children prayed at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Kansas...