Whereas, there are no divisions in Jesus the Christ who unites us in one Lord, one faith and one baptism with the pastors who sat at the President’s Table, the differences that we will illuminate in this letter will reveal those who possess God’s approval.Ģ0 So then, when you come together, it is not the Lord’s Supper you eat, 21 for when you are eating, some of you go ahead with your own private suppers. 19 No doubt there have to be differences among you to show which of you have God’s approval. On Wednesday, August 1, 2018, several Black pastors were invited to the White House by President Trump to sit at his table for the President’s “Meeting with Inner City Pastors.” In concert with the Apostle Paul’s rebuke in I Corinthians 11: 17, we have no praise for the Black pastors who attended this meeting, and believe that their meeting did more harm than good.ġ8 In the first place, I hear that when you come together as a church, there are divisions among you, and to some extent I believe it. – 1 Corinthians 11: 17 NN President Trump hosted a meeting with inner city pastors on August 1, 2018. “The Department is continuing its efforts to vaccinate persons in our care, which is a vital step toward resuming normal operations,” Beard said.17 In the following directives I have no praise for you, for your meetings do more harm than good. In an email to Aleteia, DOC spokesman John Beard said the department is “committed to expanding in-person visitation and volunteer programs at the earliest possible time and as soon as public health experts deem it safe to do so.”
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WILL charged that the DOC policy “violates both state statute and the state constitutional guarantee to the free exercise of religion.” The law center pointed out that Wisconsin law provides in part that members of the clergy of all religious faiths shall have an opportunity, at least once each week, to conduct religious services within the state correctional institutions. “With this policy in place Wisconsin inmates have apparently been denied the ability to attend an in-person religious service led by a volunteer minister who shares their faith, or receive a sacrament administered by a volunteer minister such as communion, or even meet one-on-one with a volunteer minister for counseling,” WILL said in a press release.
On March 13, 2020, the DOC announced that, “out of an abundance of caution,” in order to “minimize the risk of bringing COVID-19 into facilities,” it would temporarily suspend “all visits, including volunteer visits.” “It is simply not permitted to indefinitely suspend constitutional and statutory rights to the free exercise of religion.” “The Wisconsin Department of Corrections was warned it is violating the law by prohibiting inmates from meeting in-person with volunteer priests and other religious ministers,” said Anthony LoCoco, deputy counsel for the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), which brought the suit on behalf of the archdiocese. The lawsuit asks the court to order the Department of Corrections to immediately allow members of the clergy to access state correctional institutions to provide religious services to inmates.
The complaint filed in Jefferson County Circuit Court Friday says that for over a year, priests and deacons of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee “have been unable to meet in-person with inmates to provide spiritual direction, to conduct Masses, or to administer sacraments that cannot be administered virtually such as the Eucharist, Penance, and the Anointing of the Sick.” Wisconsin DOC's temporary ban on volunteers' visits is severely restricting inmates' access to sacraments.Ī Wisconsin Department of Corrections policy is preventing the Catholic Church from carrying out its mission in prisons, claims a lawsuit filed last week.
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