What say you, J.D? Your fellow Catholics in your home state are too afraid to attend Church on Christmas

[Diamond_Dog]

Thanks to the cruel policies you support J.D. What a sickening hypocrite! De Wine, too!

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The bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus is excusing parishioners from the obligation to attend Mass during the Christmas season during heightened operations by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

"Recent days have seen an increase in immigration enforcement in the diocese of Columbus, causing an increase of fear and anxiety in our immigrant communities. The increased presence of federal agents in proximity to our churches and schools is creating an atmosphere of fear, rather than security and peace which we all desire," Bishop Earl Fernandes wrote in a letter and announced on social media Dec. 23.

The "dispensation" from the obligation to go to Mass and participate in holy days applies to anyone who fears being detained - regardless whether they have legal status or not - through the end of the Christmas season on Jan. 11.

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2025/12/23/columbus-catholics-who-fear-ice-excused-from-mass-bishop-says/87902532007/?utm_source=dispatch-newsalert-strada&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_term=hero&utm_content=ncod-columbus-nletter01#

[Ocelot II]

1. This is for the protection of brown Catholics, who don't count.

The only Catholics who count are white ones, preferably members of Opus Dei who think Pope Leo is a heretic.

[peppertree]

10. +1

The Latin American dictatorships and Franco's Spain? That's Shady Dunce's model of governance (all heavily staffed with Opus Dei fiends).

Minus the public works, of course. A lot of those regimes at least had a good record on that (albeit crammed with corruption).

[cbabe]

2. 6 of the 9 Supreme Court Justices are Catholic -- Here's a Closer Look

https://www.ncregister.com/blog/supreme-court-catholics

6 of the 9 Supreme Court Justices are Catholic — Here’s a Closer Look

The Catholics on the nation’s highest court include Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.

… more …

(What say them?)

[ananda]

4. Catholic in name only...

not even close to following the teachings
of Christ.

[cbabe]

8. Called 'smorgasbord' catholics; choosing what they want and leaving the rest.

[ananda]

9. I wonder if they belong to Opus Dei.

Anyway, they are the pure evil satanic version.

I think they follow the anti-christ -- which, in
terms of personification -- spell Donald Trump.

[usonian]

3. Same in parts of So California that I know of.

[Old Crank]

5. War on Christians

By the GOP.

[BurnDoubt]

6. I grew up in the Catholic Church...

And I NEVER heard any of the shit that now passes for Christianity.
They were all-about Kindness and Inclusion.
Today's "Christers" now swoon over the Orange Anti-Christ.
I believe the old Woke notion of Faith, Hope, and Charity has been deemed quaint by these New-Age Apostates who desecrate the name of Christ by their every action despite their proclamations of Faith.
Using Jesus to justify their racism IS a Mortal Sin.
SLAP YOUR PASTOR.
I can't wait until the Pope reminds them the Road To Heaven begins and ends in Catholicism.

[LNM]

7. This is so sad

I’m an atheist but I feel for people who long to go to church during the the holiday season but are afraid.