Italy and the Vatican opened a new phase in the virus crisis Monday, with churches resuming public Masses after a sharp confrontation between the Italian church and state over limits on worshipping in the era of COVID-19.
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“Before I became a priest I was a surgeon, so for me gloves are normal,” he joked afterward. “I’m dexterous so the hosts don’t get away from me.”lockdown, with commercial shops and restaurants reopening and barbers going back to work for the first time since March 10. Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Orthodox and Siks have their own protocols, with at the very least masks required for the faithful and a one-meter distance kept at all times. The fear is that the elderly, among the most devout and also the most at-risk of infection, could be exposed to the virus with resumed religious observance in the onetime European epicenter of the pandemic.
Eventually an accord was reached, but it imposes a series of restrictions on access and even the administration of the sacraments: At Sant'Eugenio, the Sunday 11 a.m. Mass usually exceeds 500. Now only 150 can attend. Everyone must wear a face mask and sit 1-meter apart. The Vatican has its own norms, and as a sovereign state, is not beholden to the Italian government measures. But in some cases it goes beyond them, with the guards bearing thermo-scanners in St. Peter's Square taking the temperatures of anyone who wants to enter the basilica.
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