With uptick of COVID-19 cases, Wisconsin diocese again suspends obligation to attend Mass aleteia.org
Less than a month after telling Catholics that they must attend Mass on Sundays and holy days again, a Wisconsin bishop has once more suspended the obligation.
“In the past few weeks the number of cases has increased fourfold within many areas of our [16-county] diocese, and we are being counted among the worst outbreaks in the country,” Bishop David L. Ricken of Green Bay wrote in an October 5 letter to the faithful of the diocese. “Therefore, given the recent markedly high rise in the number of cases, and after consultation with diocesan leadership and medical professionals, I have decided to dispense again the Catholic faithful in the Diocese of Green Bay from the obligation to attend Mass on Sundays.”…
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