https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2020/03/24/churches-close-as-country-transitions-to-covid-19-alert-level-4/ The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Mon, 06 Apr 2020 04:56:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2020/03/24/churches-close-as-country-transitions-to-covid-19-alert-level-4/#comment-56371 Mon, 06 Apr 2020 04:56:45 +0000 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=20946#comment-56371 As commented elsewhere, this is not the first time laity have struggled to access clergy or the sacraments.
But it is the first time in Church history that ALL clergy, everywhere, from Roman Pontiff to Bluff parish priest, have had the flock removed from them.

]]> https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2020/03/24/churches-close-as-country-transitions-to-covid-19-alert-level-4/#comment-56168 Wed, 01 Apr 2020 09:28:00 +0000 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=20946#comment-56168 Didn’t appreciate the Palmerston North diocese closing down churches hours before the lock-down. The only support we appear to be getting is through live streamed Masses, though these would be appreciated more and we’d feel the inclusiveness of being Catholic if some of these being streamed made a point of having the Blessed Sacrament on view during services.

]]> https://nzcatholic.org.nz/2020/03/24/churches-close-as-country-transitions-to-covid-19-alert-level-4/#comment-55948 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 02:33:39 +0000 https://nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=20946#comment-55948 Sad days indeed. Bp Lowe sounds like a Bishop. Cardinal Dew sounds like a beauracrat.

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