Police remove young people praying the rosary at Reformation event in Catholic Church
LYON, France, December 7, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — For the fourth time in recent months, a group of youth singing the rosary interrupted an ecumenical service at a Catholic church. Young Catholics gathered last Friday as faithful witnesses to pray at St. Irénée Church in Lyon during an interfaith service attended by the local Archbishop, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin.
A video capturing a brief portion of the incident shows the young men kneeling and singing as armed policemen assemble to remove them from the church. The ecumenical service was the conclusion of commemorations of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. The Catholic Youth Movement of France and France Jeunesse Civitas conducted the disruption to “publicly repair this offense to God and His Church.”
“Catholic activists could not let this scandal go unpunished,” a translated post on the Civitas website said. “So we gathered in this church to denounce this sacrilegious meeting and pray to the rosary saint.” “What a sad fact,” they said, “the religious authorities have abandoned almost all Catholic doctrine and let error invade our sacred places.”
The group’s post said all of the ecumenical participants had left before the rosary concluded, attributing this to the strength of the prayer. The report said some members of the group distributed an explanatory flyer while most sang the rosary on their knees, enduring “insults and mockery.”
“In 2017, when French Catholics pray in a church,” they said, “the police are sent on the spot to expel them with HKG36 machine guns.” The La Croix article called the young people “nationalist and traditionalist Catholic youths” and reported that they had “shaved heads and black clothes” and “were shouting ‘Hail Mary’ loudly and repeatedly.”
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