{"id":1098041,"date":"2021-12-08T10:28:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T15:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1098041"},"modified":"2021-12-08T10:29:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T15:29:01","slug":"berlin-archbishop-bars-unvaccinated-catholics-from-attending-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/berlin-archbishop-bars-unvaccinated-catholics-from-attending-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin Archbishop Bars Unvaccinated Catholics from Attending Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fberlin-archbishop-bars-unvaccinated-catholics-from-attending-mass%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1098041&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">ROME \u2014 Berlin archbishop Heiner Koch has barred unvaccinated Catholics from attending Mass in his archdiocese, sparking protests by members of the German faithful and an outcry from Catholics worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday, German Catholics organized a prayer vigil in Berlin\u2019s Hedwig\u2019s Cathedral, \u201csinging, praying, and displaying a sign which read: \u2018No 2G: Church for all,\u2019\u201d LifesiteNews <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/blogs\/german-catholics-protest-after-unvaccinated-faithful-banned-from-mass-in-berlin\/\">reported<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Protesters slogans refer to the segregation of Catholics into two tiers \u2014 the vaccinated and the unvaccinated \u2014 with the latter being treated as second-class Catholics unworthy of the sacraments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is of greatest concern is the possible creation of two classes of Catholics, in this case, one \u2018vaccinated\u2019 and one \u2018unvaccinated,\u2019\u201d declares Dr. Robert Moynihan, the founding editor of <em>Inside the Vatican<\/em> magazine, in a letter made available to Breitbart News (Letter #166).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis would be unprecedented, and a terrible tragedy,\u201d Moynihan says, noting that the measure \u201cis not in harmony with the perennial Catholic faith, as it marginalizes an entire group of Catholics, rather than embracing and nourishing them.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19045834\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1217834151.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19045834\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1217834151-683x1024-1.jpg\" alt width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Berlin Archbishop Heiner Koch (R) and Monsignor Hansjoerg Guenther rehearse the veneration of the cross for the Good Friday liturgy. (Photo by Sean Gallup\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a blog post Tuesday, Bishop Henry Gracida, the retired bishop of Corpus Christi, Texas, <a href=\"https:\/\/abyssum.org\/2021\/12\/07\/are-we-about-to-experience-here-in-the-united-states-what-our-fellow-catholics-are-experiencing-fascist-repression-by-their-own-bishops\/\">slammed<\/a> the Berlin move as the \u201cfascist repression\u201d of Catholics \u201cby their own bishops.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the organizers of the German Catholic protests against the archbishop\u2019s decision, Moritz Scholtysik, noted that some faithful were barred from attending Mass on the first two Sundays of Advent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is disastrous,\u201d Scholtysik said. \u201cAccording to the catechism the faithful have a right to receive the holy sacraments. Especially in a time when we experience fear, loneliness, and isolation, the common celebration of Holy Mass is more important than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scholtysik also observed that the archbishop had made this decision unilaterally, with no pressure whatsoever from civil authorities.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>In his \u201cLetter #166,\u201d Moynihan draws unfavorable comparisons between Berlin\u2019s Archbishop Koch and Saint Charles Borromeo, the 16th-century Archbishop of Milan who guided his people through the devastating plague of 1576 at immense personal risk.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19045850\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1229491962.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19045850\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1229491962-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Germany\u2019s Social Democratic SPD party\u2019s co-leader Saskia Esken (L) and Archbishop of the Catholic Church in Berlin, Heiner Koch attend a vigil remembering the victims of the terrorist attack in Vienna, outside the Austrian embassy in Berlin on November 6, 2020. (OMER MESSINGER\/AFP via Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Borromeo attended to the faithful personally, anointing the sick and giving Viaticum, or Holy Communion, to the dying, aware of the personal risk of contagion, because of his awareness of his flock\u2019s spiritual needs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Church has never believed that it is in harmony with the Christian faith to divide the members of the Church into two groups, one \u2018pure\u2019 and able to receive the sacraments, the other \u2018impure\u2019 and forbidden access to the sacraments,\u201d Moynihan declares. \u201cThe Church is one, and must always be one, and so remain united.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Berlin decision is a very dangerous precedent,\u201d he concludes, while expressing hope that Rome will address the matter \u201cdecisively\u201d as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME \u2014 Berlin archbishop Heiner Koch has barred unvaccinated Catholics from attending Mass in his archdiocese, sparking protests by members of the German faithful and an outcry from Catholics worldwide. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}