Friday, March 29, AD 2024 6:01am

PopeWatch: Never Mind

Can’t anyone play this game:

March 14:

ROME – After a Vatican office announced Saturday that all Holy Week liturgies would be livestreamed rather that celebrated publicly amid Italy’s coronavirus crackdown, a day later their communications department walked part of that back, saying the method for celebrating Holy Week is still being studied.

On March 14, the Prefecture for the Papal Household, the office in charge of organizing papal audiences and meetings with heads of state, published a statement on its website saying that “because of the current global public health emergency, all the Liturgical Celebrations of Holy Week will take place without the physical presence of the faithful.”

March 15:

However, in a March 15 statement on the matter, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni seemed to reverse part of the prefecture’s statement, saying the pope’s liturgical celebrations during Holy Week “are all confirmed.”

Regarding the question of whether people will be able to attend the celebrations, Bruni did not offer a definitive answer, but simply said that “methods of implementation and participation are being studied which respect the security measures put in place to avoid the spread of coronavirus.”

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Frank
Frank
Monday, March 16, AD 2020 7:41am

Has this Vatican crowd ever given a simple, straight answer to any question? I’m pretty sure they have not.

Patricia
Patricia
Monday, March 16, AD 2020 5:30pm

What?
Oh, never mind.

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