Bishop Schneider: Coronavirus is causing a ‘catacomb Church’ to emerge
“If the government denies the Church the same rights as they give to a store, then this is discrimination of the religion.” he said. "It could be that we are going through a time of the catacombs — a kind of underground Church. But we needn’t be fearful. We have to be courageous."
Schneider pointed to the heavy-handed restrictions placed on churches in the United Kingdom and elsewhere as proof that governments are using the coronavirus as a “pretext” to “implicitly persecute” the Catholic Church.
England’s lockdown laws are “completely against every reasonableness of proportionality,” he remarked. They are “a kind of discrimination and persecution of the Church.”
His Excellency continued: “The bishops and the bishops’ conferences — and even the Holy See — should insist on the governments to give to the churches at least the same rights … as they give to the stores where people can buy food.” “If the government denies the Church the same rights as they give to a store, then this is discrimination of the religion.”
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