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A Glasgow priest has launched a legal action to stop a north-south divide on the right to worship during lockdown.
Priest plans legal action over church closures Sign up for our daily Politics briefing for political exclusives, analysis and debate. Thank you for signing up to our Politics newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A priest plans to launch legal action against the Scottish Government over lockdown church closures. Canon Tom White, of St Alphonsus RC Church in the Calton area of Glasgow, has issued a pre-action letter to the Government demanding it lifts lockdown restrictions forcing places of worship to close. They are only permitted to conduct weddings or fu...
Print article In April, the deadliest month of the pandemic, an elderly New Yorker in assisted living couldn’t grasp why she was suddenly forbidden to see her friends. In May, two sisters in Michigan, one Republican and the other a Democrat, watched their aged parents suffer from covid-19 and wondered why so many people refused to cover their faces against the virus. In Florida in October, with 200,000 Americans already dead, a strong young man questioned how dire - how real - the whole crisis was. In wintry South Dakota last month, as the coronavirus hit home with an icy clarity, a man w...
Despite the hardships ahead, more than anything, they want the pandemic to end. "I understand why, but it's still a hardship. We have families. It's Christmastime," said restaurant manager Kim Seeger. At Fraschetta Restaurant on Lancaster Avenue in Bryn Mawr, owner Rosemarie Tran says the same. But Tran hopes, since the state government is imposing these restrictions that they will receive support and help. Across the street from Fraschetta is Grove 121 woman's clothing shop, which has also been hit with restrictions as retail shops can only have 50% capacity inside. Sandy Edelstein, the owne...
Despite the hardships ahead, more than anything, they want the pandemic to end. "I understand why, but it's still a hardship. We have families. It's Christmastime," said restaurant manager Kim Seeger. At Fraschetta Restaurant on Lancaster Avenue in Bryn Mawr, owner Rosemarie Tran says the same. But Tran hopes, since the state government is imposing these restrictions that they will receive support and help. Across the street from Fraschetta is Grove 121 woman's clothing shop, which has also been hit with restrictions as retail shops can only have 50% capacity inside. Sandy Edelstein, the owne...