The Morning Briefing contains a link to this story from Belleville, Ill.: Controversy continues as more Belleville churchgoers are told to get on their knees.
Briefly, Belleville Bishop Edward K. Braxton has sent letters to three pastors ordering them to tell their parishioners they must cease standing and instead, kneel during the reading of the Eucharistic Prayer.
The Web site of the local newspaper, the Belleville News-Democrat, has an online poll about this issue. Here's the poll as I saw it this morning:
Should Bishop Braxton be telling parishioners whether to kneel or not?
Yes. As head of the Catholics in the diocese, it's his responsibility.
No. It should be up to the parishioners and their priest.
Who can say? It's too hard for me to decide.
Total Votes: 2477
