Catholic frogs fight back to open churches
https://www.crisismagazine.com/2020/reopen-the-churches-or-our-lady-will
…One does not choose the era of one’s lifetime. One can regret it, but it is what it is; it is pointless to weep for a past that is gone. So, dear friends, since God has put us here, let us make use of this absurd time for our own sanctification and that of our families.
Absurd, for it is absurd to want to impose this new religion of sanitary secularism on Catholics, where life is considered such an absolute that priests are forbidden entry to hospitals and cannot bring to the dying the spiritual aid for which they beg—while the lives of 200,000 unborn children, killed each year in the same places, are surrounded with no such care.
Absurd, for it is absurd to reduce man to his basic needs, as if men were no more than livestock, requiring only their ration of hay to survive.
Take off your masks, ladies and gentlemen in government—not the covering over your mouths but the covering over your eyes, the blindfold of the secularism you promote.
Cast off the hollow façade of neutrality that ill conceals your belligerence towards the Catholic religion, the religion that forged France. The cathedral before which we stand is only one example among so many others.
Admit it: you reject, you fight every manifestation of the Incarnate God who immolates Himself for all of us, for you too, every day on the altar, in becoming substantially and really present under the appearances of bread and wine.
Finally—and this is why we are here today—the State, by forbidding our assistance at Mass, has exceeded its competence by intervening directly in Catholic worship.
But it does not have the power to purely and simply suppress public worship, nor to restrict its exercise, for public worship is outside of its jurisdiction. It can only request that the ecclesiastical authority do so. This is true both according to theology and doctrine, and according to the law of our current Republic.
With the law of 1905 [separating Church and State] and the concept of neutrality, the State has divested itself (the wording of the law is precise) of any power to intervene in the organization of worship or to judge in this context of what is essential and what is not. It cannot therefore judge, or differentiate between, instances of individual worship (personal prayer) or social worship (the Mass), nor issue restrictions on access or organization of one or the other.
Therefore, we should not even have to claim the right to freedom of worship; we can simply point out that the State is not acting according to its own Constitution. From here on, and even if this argument is founded on an iniquitous law, what moral credibility can a State possess when it flouts its own laws? The conclusion is obvious.
In the meantime, let us do as we did during the 1832 cholera outbreak in Paris and make use of the efficacious means at our disposal: the Miraculous Medal and the Rosary. Let us have confidence that the Most Blessed Virgin will not abandon her children. She will throw the doors of our churches open wide; they were built, above all, that the faithful might assist at Holy Mass!
Our weapon is the Rosary, so let us entrust all these misfortunes to our heavenly Mother; it is the best recourse we have. And let us believe in the virtue of Hope. It is Hope that makes us confident of the final victory…
Thank you, dear friends, for coming in such numbers.
This promise is only binding on those who choose to make it, but we promise to return here every Sunday, if we must, until the right to assist at Holy Mass, which is a basic necessity of life, is returned to us.
In this way, we will bear witness to our faith and to the hunger for God we experience, a hunger that you, our governors, claim not to feel, that you ignore.
Yes: we demand the return of public Mass to our churches!
No: your hand sanitizer will never replace our holy water.
Until next Sunday, and a safe return home.