Cathedral of St. Paul. (Shutterstock)
Jonathan Ekene Ifeanyi
Minnesota's
Novus Ordo bishops, the first US bishops to take a decision to contravene a
senseless state-wide executive order prohibiting religious gathering, write:
“It
is now permissible for an unspecified number of people to go to shopping malls
and enter stores, so long as no more than 50 percent of the occupancy capacity
is reached. Big-box stores have hundreds of people inside at any one time, and
the number of goods that are being handled and distributed in one store by many
people—stock staff, customers, cashiers—is astounding. Workers are present for
many hours per day, often in close proximity. There is no state mandate that
customers wear masks in those malls or stores, wash their hands consistently,
or follow any specific cleaning protocol.
“In
these circumstances, and given the well-researched protocols that we have
proposed (and that are being followed successfully elsewhere in our nation) how
can reason require us any longer to keep our faithful from the Eucharist?”
I
respond: You fool yourselves if you think God will not punish you for
preventing people from worshipping God in the first place.
And
I hope African (and in particular Nigerian) heretics who, in their massive
foolishness, think that they are — by obeying their atheistic governments —
obeying God, are listening.
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