Pressure Builds to Reopen Churches in Italy

Many Catholics in Italy and other European international locations are calling on governments to permit community Masses once again immediately after weeks of lockdown to include the coronavirus, in a debate that pits religious liberty versus community-wellbeing problems.

Italian bishops are unhappy that the federal government has set a reopening day for bars and hairdressers but not for Mass, which has been suspended across the state because early March.

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