Filed in B.C. Supreme Court Feb. 26, the petition said the order breaches constitutional religious freedoms. The petition said the archdiocese represents about 500,000 baptized Catholics, and operates 77 parishes, 51 schools and four places of higher education. In a Feb. 19 letter to provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry, Archbishop Michael Miller said the requirement to attend Mass on Sunday is binding on Roman Catholics for personal worship through the ministry of a priest. “This foundational practice of the Catholic faith and life of divine worship has now been precluded for three months, with no clear end in sight,” Miller said. Henry’s order recognized the order could impact religious freedoms but said those freedoms are not absolute and subject to reasonable limits.
Roman Catholic archdiocese seeks pandemic exemptions
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