— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 21, 2020
Yeah, that decision is not really his:
Three weeks after it resumed limited Masses, a Catholic church in Houston has again shuttered its doors after five leaders tested positive for COVID-19.I have a friend who is about to retire from ministry. The church he has pastored for decades has not met except on YouTube since the lockdown started. Whether they will even try to meet as a church for his retirement date in June is a very open question for them. I feel for him, and for them. But none of them are "breaking in" to that church (I really question that story in the first place).
The closure of Holy Ghost Catholic Church on Chetwood Drive comes five days after the death of one of its leaders, Rev. Donnell Kirchner, who church leaders said last week may have contracted the virus and exposed others to it before his death on May 13.
On Monday, the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston said that over the weekend five people tested positive. All were members of a religious community connected to the church, and are asymptomatic, the archdiocese said.
The archdiocese also provided more details on Kirchner’s death, the cause of which is still unknown. According to the archdiocese, Kirchner, 79, was recently diagnosed with pneumonia while at an urgent care clinic.
Kirchner was not hospitalized and later returned to the home he shared with seven other members of the Redemptionists religious order.
The archdiocese said it’s unclear if prior to returning home he was tested for coronavirus .
In a separate statement, Holy Ghost officials said that two of the people who tested positive are priests who have been “active” in Masses since they resumed on a limited basis as part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to gradually reopen sectors of the Texas economy.
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