Priest Calls Police on Mother of 11 Praying in Empty Church Without a Mask
Neither the priest nor the diocese have explained the arrest despite a stated mask exemption for those seated in their pew.KANSAS CITY, Missouri, November 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) —
The pastor of a Catholic Church in Kansas City, Missouri, had a woman arrested as she prayed with her children in the pews of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church for refusing to wear a mask, despite instructions in the church’s previous Sunday bulletin and the diocesan website stating that masks are required “except when remaining in the pew.”
The mother of 11 children, six of whom are adopted, said in an interview with Restoring the Faith Media that she came to the church with her family to pray Vespers, as she does every year on Halloween.
She had arrived early and was praying private devotions with her husband and children when police arrived and arrested her, at the request of the church pastor, Rev. Gary Ziuraitis, C.Ss.R.
The bulletin issued by Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church on October 25 reads, “In accordance with diocesan rules and the current Kansas City ordinance, everyone must wear a mask in church, unless you are seated in your pew.”
The Kansas City police incident report says the pastor told the officers that the mother, whose name she wishes to remain anonymous, was not wearing a mask when she entered the church, and neither were her children.
The mother said that the keyholder of the church yelled at her and her children as they entered for not wearing masks, even though no one was in the church at the time. She continued on to a pew to pray the Divine Mercy chaplet with her children, after which, she reported, the pastor approached them, without wearing a mask himself, and told her that she would have to put on a mask or leave the church.
The police report says, “It is not the Police Department’s position to enforce the mask ordinance in KC, the Health Department does that here. It was [the pastor’s] request that we ask her to leave or arrest her for trespassing.”
The website of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph currently states, “The faithful are obliged to wear a mask upon entering the church and during the celebration of Mass, except when remaining in the pew [emphasis in the original] unless the local city/county health directives so require and for the brief moment of receiving Holy Communion.”
Not only does the bulletin of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church restate this exception for those in a pew, but the church is what the mother described as a “monstrosity of a cathedral the size of a football field.”
It seats up to 800 people, and has the “longest aisle in Kansas City,” according to the church website.
Wait: Are You Trying To Tell Me There Are No Guns Or Good Ol’ Boys Down South?
Invasive Dog-Sized Lizard Continues To Spread in Southeast; ‘They Eat Just About Anything’
Al.com | 24 Nov 2020 | Leada GoreWildlife officials are warning that tegu – a South American lizard that can grow up to the size of a dog – continue to spread across the Southeast.
The Argentine black-and-white tegu is an invasive animal that has spread to Georgia and South Carolina but has also been reported in Alabama.
The lizards, which can grow up to 10 pounds and 4 feet long, are “voracious invaders,” according to National Geographic, and, once established in an area, it’s hard to control the spread.
Once established, tegu will eat just about anything – birds, reptiles, fruits and vegetables. They also like eggs, causing concerns for the future of other species in the areas, including turtles.
Hold my beer . . .
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How was everyone’s Thanksgiving? Mine was spent breaking the stupid Q rules for my state and having a nice meal with various friends. Oh, an lots of alcohol. Lots and lots. So a day of rest today with some light Christmas decorating and package wrapping for me. Tomorrow, breaking some more rules with a round of golf out of state. Gotta make use of a decent day to get on the course before the snow sets in.
Question All Elections
This seems like a nice succinct sentiment, which I would apply to everything from the Kennedy era forward. Just wanted to get it recorded before it becomes a cliché.
Here’s Hoping You Enjoyed Thanksgiving Like a Democrat, Not Like a Peon
Denver mayor couldn’t even wait a whole hour to fly to Mississippi for Thanksgiving after warning people to ‘avoid travel, if you can’
Twitchy | 11-25-20 | Sarah D.
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock recently urged those in his fair city to avoid traveling to enjoy Thanksgiving with their loved ones. Because he truly cares about Denverites’ wellbeing.
Or maybe because he just wanted to make sure that he wouldn’t have to sit near anybody on the plane ride to Mississippi, where he’s going to spend his Thanksgiving with his wife and daughter.
Word Gets Out That Election May Just Possibly Have Been Rigged
As Bugs Would Say: “Myeh, Happy Thanksgiving, Leatherstocking!”
Deer steals hunter’s gun, flees into woods
UPI | Nov. 25, 2020 | Ben HooperNov. 25 (UPI) — A hunter in the Czech Republic was charged by a deer that snagged the man’s gun on its antlers and fled into the woods with the weapon, police said.
Police in the South Bohemian Region …
Rhapsody lyrics: “Momma, just culled a man…”
…said a hunter contacted authorities to recount the story of how he lost his gun while hunting near the village of Horni Plana.
Hey! I’ve been in that Plana!
The man said one of the hunting dogs in his group startled a stag in a wooded area, causing the panicked deer to run directly toward him.
The deer’s antlers ripped the man’s sleeve and ended up snagged on his .22 Hornet rifle, which had been slung over his left hand at the time.
The animal ran off into the woods with the hunter’s unloaded gun still attached to its antlers, the man told police.
Police said another hunter reported spotting a deer with a rifle dangling from its antlers more than half a mile from the scene.
Priceless!
Investigators said the hunter was required to report the loss of the rifle under the Czech Republic’s Firearms and Ammunition Act.
Rightless.
Biden Johnson Is Right!
Heck, this could’ve been one of Walrus’s polls, but an emu chased me out of the Polling Data Techno-Suite down to the atrium, so I’ll just post it this way. And it almost bit me in the atrium.
One of these two quotes are in the running for Biden’s putative inauguration speech. Which one would he go with on the steps of the Capitol?
The details of my life are quite inconsequential… very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we’d make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds — pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum… it’s breathtaking — I highly suggest you try it.
Or:
I wash born here, an I wash raished here, and dad gum it, I’m a-gonna die here, an’ no sidewindin’ bushwackin’, hornswagglin’ cracker-croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter!
A Citizens’s Got To Know His Limitations . . .
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