ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — One of the oldest Roman Catholic dioceses in the United States will again be foregoing Sunday Mass indefinitely as New Mexico marks its latest surge of COVID-19 cases.
Archbishop John C. Wester is directing churches within the northern New Mexico diocese to cease regular Mass schedules after
"Combined with the perennial influenza season which is fast approaching and persons being in closer quarters during the winter, this portends a ‘perfect storm' to form an extremely hazardous situation,"
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