After the publication in the Bocyl of the new restrictive measures imposed in Castilla y León to reduce the advance of the coronavirus, which includes the controversial curfew at 8:00 p.m., the parishes of the Community also reacted to the new restrictions that were included in said agreement, where its capacity is reduced to a maximum of 25 people per temple.
Today, Sunday, the day of the Eucharist and catechesis throughout the territory, the parishes adapted their offices to the new circumstances, and relying on social networks and streaming to reach out to your parishioners on the ‘Lord’s Day’.
The archbishops and bishops of the eleven dioceses of Castilla y León already expressed their “firm opposition” to the limitation of capacity in absolute terms, with a maximum of 25 people per temple, since it does not seem “reasoned or acceptable” since “the surface and volume of the thousands of temples, hermitages and chapels that exist in the Community is very diverse”.
The ‘numerus clausus’ criterion, they have added in a statement sent to Europa Press, is also “unfair because it is disproportionate, since it prevents the exercise of the fundamental right of freedom of worship” to people who could exercise it in so many of the temples that , “Even with a strict proportional capacity limitation, they could accommodate more than 25 participants without putting their own health and that of others at risk”.
For this reason, the dioceses have reported that they have conveyed to the political leaders their “firm opposition” to the criterion of ‘numerus clausus’, with the “hope” that their reasons will be heard as an example of what happened in other Autonomous Communities that , having established ‘numerus clausus’, “they rectified and returned to the proportional criterion applied in a general way in the various gauges.”
In this sense, they ask the Board to “suppress” the ‘numerus clausus’ of 25 people and to remain the “proportional and reasoned limitation of capacity in temples, as in the rest of the CCAA”.
At the same time, the archbishops and bishops have expressed their “commitment to continue urging the Christian people to put into practice the measures agreed by the authorities to prevent contagion”, since they are “aware of the serious health situation” that the Community is experiencing due to of the COVID-19 pandemic, a situation that “demands great responsibility from everyone and takes care of preventive and hygienic measures that prevent the spread of the disease.”
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