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Prelate forbade clergy from administering last rites during the pandemicBERGAMO, 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...

ROME — The bishop of the northern Italian diocese of Bergamo has suspended a priest of the diocese for publicly opposing Italy’s vaccine mandate. Bergamo Bishop Francesco Beschi relieved Father Emanuele Personeni from all pastoral duties just prior to the priest’s planned tour of parishes throughout Italy to protest the government’s imposition of the Green Pass on citizens. The priest has argued that the vaccine mandate and imposition of the green pass violate “the fundamental rights of the person.” Personeni wrote a letter to Pope Francis insisting that “the vaccine’s side effects certified by the American, European, and Italian supervisory...