Letters to the Editor: Bishops’ defiance of public health guidelines must be stopped

The increasing number of Catholic bishops who are defying public health advice by allowing Communions and Confirmations in their dioceses  are challenging the authority of the Irish State.

The increasing number of Catholic bishops who are defying public health advice by allowing Communions and Confirmations in their dioceses as hospital admissions continue to rise are throwing down their episcopal gauntlets and challenging the authority of the Irish State.

They are not just in contempt of public health advice, but they are misusing their episcopal authority by ordering their priests and encoraging their diocesan Catholics to be collaborators with them.