Voices
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Ricardo da Silva, S.J., is an associate editor for America Media and the host of the podcast “Preach.”
Politics & SocietyDispatches
In a press statement released on Oct. 8, the diocese said that the decision to restrict attendance at Mass to as few as 10 people in the worst-affected zip codes is a violation of the First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion.