VATICAN CITY (AP) — Italy and the Vatican opened a new phase in the virus crisis Monday, with churches resuming public Masses after a sharp confrontation between the Italian church and state over limits on worshipping in the era of COVID-19.
The headline might have been more clear. It read to me like the Italian government was in a clash with itself. Not saying that couldn’t happen.
The bishops cried their freedom to worship was being trampled on…
This is always the case with pious frauds, yet their deity remains powerless to protect them from a little ole virus, and they ultimately depend on the mean, secular government to protect them when something goes wrong.
If this article accurately characterizes the Italian bishops’ attitudes, they’re not much different from our right-wing evangelical preachers.
Good thing most Italians don’t go to mass.