Priests ‘face prison’ for saying Mass in public

Blithe Spirit 1 Minute

Sunday sermons, weekday observations

Where? Ireland.

A priest could be imprisoned or fined for saying Mass in public under new restrictions passed into Irish law last week, a politician who chairs the Oireachtas Covid-19 Committee has warned.

Has to be something here about reaction from decades of clergy dominance.

View original post

Published by Jim Bowman

Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters, -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.

Published

2 thoughts on “Priests ‘face prison’ for saying Mass in public”

  1. This new brings to mind events that happened in my country of origin, Mexico in early part of the last century. Only their priests were shot. Pray that this doesn’t happen Ireland.

    Like

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s