CNA Staff, Sep 14, 2020 / 10:00 am
Catholics in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee will once again be required to go to Sunday Mass if they are healthy and not caring for those who are sick. The announcement that local Catholics will once again be obligated to attend Mass follows months of disruption and the suspension of the canonical obligation during the coronavirus pandemic.
In early September, the Wisconsin Catholic Conference announced that the state's five Catholic dioceses would be lifting the dispensation from the Sunday Mass attendance obligation, but that each diocese would set their own conditions regarding who was still excused.
"On September 14, 2020, the dispensation from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass and Holy Days of Obligation will expire, and it will be the responsibility of those who are capable and not prohibited by other circumstances to attend Sunday Mass," said a blog post published by Archbishop Jerome Listeki.
"Those who deliberately fail to attend Sunday Mass commit a grave sin."