Soon-To-Be Bishop Ryan

 DALLAS, Texas, March 31, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — After the local parish priest called the cops, a pregnant mother was threatened with a trespassing charge for attending Mass without wearing a mask.

In a recent interview, Deirdre Hairston told Catholic commentator Dr. Taylor Marshall that she had been at Sunday Mass at Holy Trinity Catholic church in Dallas with her husband and one-year-old baby when she was approached by the pastor, Fr. Milton Ryan. She said Ryan told her that if she didn’t put on a mask, he would call the police and have her arrested.

The pastor made good with his threat. After returning from Holy Communion with her baby in her arms, Hairston saw three police officers at the back of the church, where she and her husband had been socially distanced from the rest of the congregation. Having not yet consumed the Host, Hairston knelt down upon returning to her seat, only to be told at once to get up.

Hairston’s husband recorded a woman police officer saying to the young mother, “Ma’am, I’m going to put you in handcuffs if you don’t stand up.”

“Our own government is more lenient [about masks] at this point than our church,” Hairston told Taylor Marshall, “and that’s a problem.”

“You’re more likely to be treated with Christian charity and grace at a Taco Bell than you are at church, unfortunately.”

The young mother also said that Catholics need to “wake up” about the situation in their churches.

She said, “People need to wake up to realize that this is … the state of our church right here, right now, and we need to stand up. The church belongs to us; we are the laity. That priest — the church does not belong to him. We can’t allow these things to happen.”

OUT NAZI! I Wish This Guy Was a Catholic Bishop

 Seven police officers entered a Good Friday church service in Calgary, Alberta with the intent of shutting it down. Pastor Artur Pawlowski would not have it.

The officers stand masked and ready to enforce the closure of the 

worship service during the highest holy days on the Christian calendar.

In response to their entry, Pastor Artur Pawlowski says 

"Please get out, get out of this property immediately get out."

Pawlowski, pastor at evangelical church The Cave of Adullam, 

says again "Get out of this property immediately. Out! 

I don't want—out of this property immediately! I don't want to

 hear a word. Out! Out of this property immediately until you come 

back with a warrant."

Out! Immediately go out!" He says. "And don't come back.

I don't want to talk to you. Not another word. Out of this property."

"Gestapo is not allowed here!" He yells at the officers.

 "Immediately get out!" The officers continue to try to make their p

oint that the service needs to be shut down to comply with 

provincial health orders.

The officers move for the exit, while the lead officer continues to 

try to be heard.

Pastor Pawlowski says "The Gestapo is not allowed here!" 

The officers stand around the front entry way of the church.

Finally the officers consent to leave as Pawlowski shouts "Out, Nazi,"

 and they depart. "Nazis are not welcome here. Out. 

And don't come back without a warrant. Do not come back without a 

warrant, you understand that? You are not welcome here."

"Nazis are not welcome here. Gestapo is not welcome here. 

Do not come back, you Nazi psychopaths."

https://rumble.com/vfcqwx-out-immediately-pastor-shuts-down-attempt-to-end-church-service.html

I Wonder if Besides the Posting, They Pouted and Held Their Breath?

Footage widely shared on social media shows London police interrupting a Good Friday service at a Polish church in London and threatening Christians with fines unless they dispersed.

Metropolitan Police Service officers had interrupted Friday evening’s Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion service at Christ the King Polish Roman Catholic Church in Balham, Wandsworth, for being “unlawful” under current coronavirus lockdown restrictions.

In footage reported by Sky News, one officer, standing at the front of the church, is heard saying: “You are not allowed to meet inside with this many people under law.

“At this moment in time, you need to go home. Failure to comply with this direction to leave and go to your home address ultimately could lead you to be fined £200 or, if you fail to give you details, to being arrested.”

“It’s Good Friday and I appreciate you would like to worship, but it is unlawful,” the officer said.

Police in Wandsworth later confirmed they had investigated the place of worship in response to a “report” of people lining up outside the church.

“Officers attended and found a large number of people inside the church. Some people were not wearing masks and those present were clearly not socially distanced,” the police statement said.

How did the Church respond? They posted something on their website:

The church said all government requirements had been met during the service and criticised the police for having “brutally exceeded their powers by issuing their warrant for no good reason”.

In a statement on its website, the church said: “We were not allowed to finish the celebration. The policemen found our liturgical assembly illegal, ordering everyone to leave our Temple immediately on pain of a £200 fine for each parishioner present or even arrest. The faithful obeyed this order without objection.

“We believe, however, that the police brutally exceeded their powers by issuing their warrant for no good reason, as all government requirements were met.”

“We regret that the rights of the faithful have been wronged on such an important Day for every believer and that our worship had been profaned. We informed the superiors of the Polish Catholic Mission in England and Wales about this incident. We asked the police authorities to explain the incident, and we are waiting for their response,” church administrators said.

They added that all other scheduled Easter services would go ahead, and asked parishioners “to pray that such situations will not be repeated”.

A Bishop Who Has a Hard Time Defining "Sin"

 The recent Responsum of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, restating the Church’s teaching on the sinful nature of homosexual acts, and thus the impossibility of an ordained minister of the Church legitimately conferring a blessing upon the union of two homosexuals, should have evoked expressions of gratitude from all the bishops of the Church. Many face continuous pressure from various quarters to abandon the Church’s doctrine and practice concerning homosexuality. Instead, a number of bishops, primarily in Western Europe but also in America, have strongly criticized and indicated their disagreement, and even disgust, with the Responsum.

Bishop Bonny

Perhaps the most vehement public rejection was issued by the Bishop of Antwerp, Johan Bonny. In the Flemish-language De Standaard (cited in English here and here) he wrote:

• “I feel ashamed for my Church. I mainly feel intellectual and moral incomprehension.”

• “I want to apologize to all for whom this is painful and incomprehensible.”

• “Intellectually, this does not even reach the level of high school. These kind[s] of arguments, the logic, you see right through it. These days, you don’t convince anyone that way.”

• “Sin is one of the most difficult theological and moral categories to define, and one of the last to pin on people and their way of living."

He'd Make a Decent Unitarian...He's Got the Logic Skills

 

Rome Newsroom, Mar 31, 2021 / 07:00 am MT (CNA).- A Catholic diocese in Italy has described a priest’s refusal to bless palms on Sunday because of the Vatican’s rejection of blessings for same-sex unions as “reprehensible.”

The Diocese of Spezia-Sarzana-Brugnato said that the matter was being addressed according to Church norms.

Fr. Giulio Mignani, a priest in the north-western Italian diocese, made headlines after he refused to bless palm branches at a Palm Sunday Mass in protest of the Vatican’s document clarifying that the Catholic Church does not have the power to bless same-sex unions.

The document, a “responsum ad dubium,” was issued with Pope Francis’ approval by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) on March 15. The CDF explained its reasoning in a note and accompanying commentary.

The 50-year-old Mignani, pastor of Santa Caterina Parish in Bonassola, said during his homily March 28, “if I can’t bless same-sex couples, then I won’t bless palms and olive branches either,” according to local newspaper La Nazione.