Ever seen people protesting in front of a Catholic parish?

[Lepanto]

Maybe I should have clarified. I’d say the number of people giving communion was in proportion to the crowd, my problem was that they had vested priests and deacons not distributing communion-they were being served by lay people.

Wow – that’s pretty sad. Quite an abuse of EMHC usage. What diocese was this?

 

[CarolAnnSFO]

There was only one occasion I can remember when we had protesters outside my parish church. It was pretty much a non-event. The protestors had been told that while they were free to congregate on the city sidewalks, they could not protest on church grounds, which are private property. Well, the way my church is set up, it’s very easy to drive in and park, or walk in, without going near the city sidewalks in front of the church – I doubt many people even noticed the protestors; I know I didn’t.

 

[Melissa]

No, we’ve only gotten the cowards who leaflet our cars while we’re in Mass.

 

[beckers]

I’ve seen people protesting (complete with placards) at several ordination and chrism masses, including just last week. They were demanding women’s ordination, married clergy, openly homosexual clergy, etc.

About 6 years ago during election season I saw people protesting in front of the parish of a pro-abortion gubernatorial candidate (Michigan). The candidate’s pastor and associate pastor had publicly supported her position in the parish bulletin. The protesters trying to get the cardinal of Detroit to chastise the priests, as well as to speak about the sanctity of life. As I recall, four months of protests heavily covered by the media prompted the cardinal to finally release a written statement about three weeks before the election. (That candidate went on to become a two-term governor.)

Saw some protesters at Good Friday service last year. She made it into the outter sanctuary (in between the entrance doors and the inner sanctuary) with her protest sign (i believe it was aganist the war). The police arrested her before she got into far. Most of us didn’t noice the comotion until after the service was ended and we saw all they cop cars.