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Middle of the night raids.
No negotiations.
Gross.
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I'm not Catholic, will someone parse this out for me?
Amongst the complaints from the Archdiocese:
Hughes and Comiskey also cited other reasons for their change in concern, among them reports that children had spent the night inside the churches and that people were exercising in the buildings.
That apparently referred to some occupiers' walking laps around interiors during their two- and four-hour shifts -- as well as to "reports of people bringing yoga mats, things like that, " Comiskey said.
The archdiocese believes that either is inappropriate. Even though neither church contains the Blessed Sacrament, consecrated bread that Catholics believe is the body and blood of Christ, the churches are still sacred, consecrated spaces, she said.
Seems pretty harsh to me, but others would know better. Anyone care to enlighten?
More:
The author Poppy Z. Brite was one of the arrested parishioners. Check out this diary from just this past Sunday, after officials from the Archdiocese entered the Church in the middle of the night to scout the premises in advance of this morning's bullying.
We gathered at the church yesterday, gave a unified statement to the media, held our rosary service at 11:00 this morning as we do every Sunday, and plan to continue our vigils until Archbishop Hughes can treat us like the committed Catholic parishioners we are instead of fallen criminals who deserve to be raided in the night.
And raided they were. For real this time.
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