French Catholics take to streets as second lockdown bans public Masses again lifesitenews.com

As civil liberties have once again been suppressed in France by way of a second lockdown that is purported to be “breaking” a new wave of COVID-19, public Masses have been banned since November 3 and assistance at requiem Masses and weddings severely restricted. An emergency recourse in front of the highest administrative court, the Conseil d’Etat, was unsuccessful in challenging the government’s decision to call public worship “unessential.” But on Sunday, demonstrations in front of the cathedrals of Nantes and Versailles as well as in Lyon brought hundreds together. This coming Sunday, other towns such as Paris, Orléans, Bordeaux on the Atlantic coast, Rennes and Vannes in Brittany, and probably many others will also be the scene of legal outdoor demonstrations asking “for the Mass.”…

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