SW News: The Archbishop of San Francisco is urging the city’s civil authorities to ease restrictions on the public celebration of Holy Mass. Currently, Mass in the Californian city may be celebrated only outdoors and with only 12 attendees. Now Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has written to the city’s mayor and health officials to point out that such rules mean that going to Mass is being treated as, “less important than a trip to the hardware store, or a nice dinner out on the patio.” The Archbishop states that the denial of access to safe outdoor public worship is a serious deprivation of Catholics’ rights as Americans under the First Amendment to the country’s constitution. He also highlights that public worship is currently allowed with far fewer restrictions in most other towns and cities across the United States without any outbreaks of COVID-19 being recorded. The City of San Francisco had initially declared that public worship could resume on June the 15th, but four days before that, it imposed the attendance and outdoor-only rules after an increase in COVID-19 cases.

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