The ban on celebrating public masses as part of the new confinement does not pass in the Church of France.
While the autumn assembly of bishops begins this Tuesday morning until Sunday by videoconference - the session scheduled for Lourdes was canceled at the last minute - the president of the episcopate, Bishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort, should, according to our information, undertake an unprecedented step: this Tuesday, lodge an appeal with the Council of State in order to obtain the possibility of celebrating masses publicly.
A legal action that would be added to the seven other appeals of the same type already filed separately at the Council of State, at the end of last week, by several Catholic associations and by five bishops.
The latter also publish in
Le Figaro (see page 17)
a call for “
freedom of worship
”.
Letter to the Prime Minister
The date of the hearing of the Council of State, seized in urgency, could even be known as of this Tuesday and be fixed before the end of this week.
May 18
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