TOULON, France – The French law meant to banish Muslim headscarves from state
\nschools is finding unexpected targets in southern France, where some principals
\nhave begun turning away Roman Catholic chaplains.<\/p>\n
Five priests have been barred from state schools in the Var region despite
\nthe fact that French law has long allowed them entry to meet Catholic pupils
\nthere, according to the local diocesan spokesman Father Charles Mallard.<\/p>\n
One school in this Mediterranean port city barred a priest I suggest a trade. France sends us cassock wearing priests and TOULON, France – The French law meant to banish Muslim headscarves from state schools is finding unexpected targets in southern France, where some principals have begun turning away Roman Catholic…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthis week because he was wearing a cassock, the traditional black robe he wore
\nlast year without
\nproblem before the new law barring conspicuous religious symbols came into
\nforce. (Source<\/a>)<\/p>\n
\nwe send them people like Fr. McBrien and Joan Chittister. They will never again
\nhave to worry about priests wearing cassocks or religious habit wearing nuns
\nagain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"