Durham Cathedral, Durham, England
Durham Cathedral demands Covid passports for Christmas worshiphttps://t.co/xK8NMKx1Gd pic.twitter.com/ao6LuLJHUI
— Archbishop Cranmer: key limiting factor since 1520 (@His_Grace) November 19, 2021
This afternoon.
Durham Cathedral is the only cathedral in England (so far) to make attendance at a public act of Christmas worship contingent on the production of an NHS Covid pass, under the pretext of ‘Keeping everybody safe‘. By introducing this requirement, the Dean is ignoring the Church of England’s official guidance:
‘The Church’s position has been a clear policy of encouraging people to be vaccinated, but, other than in very exceptional circumstances, opposition to limiting access to church services or organisations on the basis of vaccine certification (also referred to as vaccine passports).
Such an approach would run contrary to the principle of the Church being a home and a refuge for all. Similarly, only in exceptional circumstances is the Church likely to utilise vaccine certification in order to facilitate additional services to its members or to the wider community, preferring to continue to emphasise existing mitigations.’
Couldn’t happen here.
*sparks up Friday fattie*
Or could it?
*releases smoke plume*
Fight!
Durham Cathedral demands Covid passports for Christmas worship (Archbishop Cranmer)
Its like the bit in the Bible where Jesus asked that the lepers be kept away from him
And as one Tweet says, the lepers actually had leprosy.
christ, do as others as onto me….
Have no faith in The Church,
unless it’s Real Estate you’re wanting to buy…
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40747962.html
Two chance of it happening… and then folks will complain about restrictions, lockdowns, certs, vaxxed and unvaxxed, and all that jazz…
You guys didn’t go to Centra at all, did ye?
Hehehehehehehe
Isn’t that where the Pink Panther is from?
Any priest that has the audacity to bar access to a place of worship is not fit for office.
They are supposed to be doing God’s work, not the governments.
The irony that they would rather have a church full of folks that took a clot shot based on cell lines from murdered babies, and exclude those that uphold the sanctity of life is beyond the pale.