Americans’ Right to Worship Is Being Denied

I won’t be silent anymore.

Most Rev. Salvatore J. Cordileone – The Washington Post, September 16, 2020 – I never expected that the most basic religious freedom, the right to worship — protected so robustly in our Constitution’s First Amendment — would be unjustly repressed by an American government.

I won’t be silent anymore.

Most Rev. Salvatore J. Cordileone – The Washington Post, September 16, 2020

I never expected that the most basic religious freedom, the right to worship — protected so robustly in our Constitution’s First Amendment — would be unjustly repressed by an American government.

But that is exactly what is happening in San Francisco. For months now, the city has limited worship services to just 12 people outdoors. Worship inside our own churches is banned. The city recently announced it will now allow 50 for outdoor worship, with a goal of permitting indoor services up to a maximum of 25 people by Oct. 1 — less than 1 percent of the capacity of San Francisco’s St. Mary’s Cathedral.

(Read on the Archdiocese of San Francisco website.)

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