No hymns, no Communion: Germany’s reopened churches offer a road map, but a new outbreak shows the risks
LA TimesMore than 100 attendees of this reopened church in Frankfurt, Germany, have recently become infected with the coronavirus. “We have to remain cautious,” said Werner Otto, a Roman Catholic priest in Frankfurt, Germany’s financial hub and the central city where the new flare-up occurred. Sitting six feet apart is required, a rule that has kept Wagemann’s church — named for Germany’s patron saint, Boniface — at half capacity. “The spirit of participation wasn’t really there, without being able to sing.” In the United States, President Trump urged the opening of churches even as the pandemic was taking hold, initially expressing hopes for full churches on Easter Sunday, April 12. “With hindsight, it would have been appropriate for us to wear mouth-and-nose protection covers during the service, and to refrain from singing together,” the church said in a statement on its website Monday.
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