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数百名天主教徒聚集在旧金山，谴责COVID-19对礼拜活动的限制！
Archbishop Cordileono tells protesters that officials are ‘mocking God’ with indoor-service restrictions
大主教Cordileono对抗议者说，官员们对室内服务的限制是在“嘲弄上帝”
As churches across the country are welcoming parishioners back inside their doors for the first time in months, Bay Area faith leaders and worshipers are growing increasingly rancorous with strict constraints public health officials continue to place upon their gatherings.
美国各地的教堂几个月来首次欢迎教区居民重返教堂，而由于公共卫生官员继续对他们的集会实施严格限制，湾区的宗教领袖和信徒们的怨恨日益加深。
Several hundred Catholics gathered Sunday morning in front of San Francisco City Hall for a “Free the Mass” demonstration and march led by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Joseph Cordileone, who asked congregants earlier this week to join him in a public call on public officials to reopen churches for worship at a “level consistent with other activities” in the city.
星期天上午，数百名天主教徒聚集在旧金山市政厅前，参加由旧金山大主教塞尔瓦托·约瑟夫·科迪莱奥内领导的“解放弥撒”示威和游行。科迪莱奥内本星期早些时候要求教众加入他的行列，公开呼吁政府官员重新开放教堂。
The Catholic marchers — many wearing matching ‘We are Essential’ T-shirts and holding signs that read messages like ‘We are not treated the same, nor heard the same’ and ‘We need the holy Eucharist’ — walked together nearly a mile to the Cathedral of Saint Mary for a large-scale outdoor worship service, likely one of the largest religious gatherings in the region in months.
这些天主教游行者身穿搭配一致的“我们是必不可少的”t恤，举着写有“我们没有得到同样的待遇，也没有听到同样的声音”和“我们需要圣餐”等标语。他们一起走了近一英里，来到圣玛丽大教堂参加大规模的户外礼拜活动，这可能是该地区几个月来规模最大的宗教集会之一。
Maria Herrara, a parishioner at St. Peter’s Church in the Mission District for the past 14 years, banged a tambourine to the beat of the church hymns that the group sang in Spanish. They walked in four single-file lines through the streets, guided by ropes that extended several blocks long to keep them distanced by several feet.
玛利亚·赫拉拉(Maria Herrara)是教区圣彼得教堂(St. Peter 's Church)的一名教友，在过去14年里一直在那里工作。她随着乐队用西班牙语演唱的教堂赞美诗的节奏敲着手鼓。他们排成四列纵队穿过街道，由绳子引导，绳子长几个街区，使他们之间保持几英尺的距离。
“There’s a lot of bad news all around us — people losing jobs, losing family, getting sick and losing the schools,” Herrera said. “This is the time when you really need God and the Holy Eucharist in your life.”
Herrera说:“我们周围有很多坏消息，人们失业了，失去了家庭，生病了，失去了学校。”“这是你生命中真正需要神和圣餐的时候。”
The reopening rules for worship services in the Bay Area remain some of the strictest mandates for religious services in the country. In most counties, including Santa Clara and Alameda, indoor religious gathering are prohibited but worshippers are allowed to gather outdoors without a capacity limit.
旧金山湾区重新开放礼拜活动的规定仍然是美国对宗教活动最严格的规定之一。在包括圣克拉拉和阿拉米达在内的大多数县，室内宗教集会是被禁止的，但朝拜者可以在室外集会，没有人数限制。
In San Francisco, up to 50 people to gather for outdoor worship and one person may go inside a religious institution at a time for individual prayer indoors. The city plans to allow for indoor services up to a maximum of 25 people by Oct. 1. But in a church like San Francisco’s St. Mary’s Cathedral, that equates to less than 1% of the facility’s capacity, according to Cordileone.
在旧金山，最多可以有50人聚集在一起进行户外礼拜，一个人可以每次进入宗教机构进行个人室内祷告。该市计划在10月1日之前允许最多容纳25人的室内服务。但根据Cordileone的数据，在旧金山圣玛丽大教堂这样的教堂，这还不到该设施总容量的1%。
Meanwhile, people are allowed to eat outdoors on restaurant patios with no set capacity limits and indoor shopping malls are allowed to operate at 25% capacity.
与此同时，人们可以在露天餐厅用餐，没有容量限制，室内购物中心的容量可以达到25%。
Cordileone wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post earlier this week, saying that government officials were denying Americans right to worship and that he could no longer sit silent in the face of the unjust treatment.
本周早些时候，Cordileone在《华盛顿邮报》上发表了一篇评论文章，称政府官员正在剥夺美国人礼拜的权利，面对这种不公正的待遇，他不能再沉默不语了。
During his homily in front of the Cathedral, the archbishop called the regulations San Francisco has placed on the churches an “insult” and a “mockery.”
在大教堂前的布道中，大主教称旧金山对教堂的规定是“侮辱”和“嘲弄”。
“The city continues to place unrealistic and suffocating restrictions on our natural and constitutional right to worship,” Cordileone said. “This discrimination affects all of us.”
Cordileone说:“这座城市继续对我们的宗教信仰的自然和宪法权利进行不切实际和令人窒息的限制。”“这种歧视影响到我们所有人。”
“…They (officials in City Hall) are mocking you, and even worse, they are mocking God,” he added later.
“……他们(市政厅的官员)在嘲笑你，更糟糕的是，他们在嘲笑上帝，”他后来补充说。
As state and local public health officials have instituted mandates to stem the spread of COVID-19, the right to worship has become a fierce debate. Nationwide, several churches have even sued to halt the restrictions.
随着州和地方公共卫生官员颁布命令遏制COVID-19的传播，礼拜权已成为一场激烈的辩论。在全国范围内，一些教堂甚至提起诉讼，要求停止这些限制。
Santa Clara’s North Valley Baptist Church racked up more than $100,000 in fines for holding indoor services last month in defiance of a county ban. The church, which has some 3,000 worshippers, moved its service outside after county officials threatened to seek a court order.
上个月，圣克拉拉的北谷浸信会无视县禁令举办室内服务，被罚款10万多美元。在县官员威胁要寻求法院命令后，这座拥有约3000名礼拜者的教堂将礼拜活动移到了外面。
Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at UC San Francisco, said he was not opposed to more lenient capacity limits for indoor church services because the inherent risks are “not about a site but with behaviors.”
加州大学旧金山分校的传染病专家Peter Chin-Hong说，他不反对对室内教堂服务的能力进行更宽松的限制，因为固有的风险“与场所无关，而是与行为有关。”
Religious gatherings, for instance, differ from malls in that people generally are seated together for lengthy durations and are singing, which can project droplets that carry COVID-19 further distances. But if churches put restrictions in place to minimize this risks, he said he sees minimal issues in further reopening.
举例来说，宗教集会与购物中心的不同之处在于，人们通常会长时间坐在一起唱歌，这可能会将传播COVID-19病毒的唾液传播到更远的地方。但他说，如果教堂采取限制措施将这种风险降到最低，他认为进一步重开教堂的问题就会降到最低。
“I want us to just think about the activities in churches and how we can make it safer,” Chin-Hong said. “Then some of the sites may be good enough to fulfill this really important need which is spiritual nourishment and emotional support during COVID.”
她说:“我想让我们只考虑教堂的活动，以及如何让它更安全。”“有些网站可能足够好来满足这一非常重要的需求，即在COVID期间精神上的滋养和情感上的支持。”
Still, many public officials have stood by the restrictions. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed back Friday against Cordileone’s criticism of COVID-related restrictions, saying he should “follow science” rather than advocate for fuller in-person gatherings for Mass and worship.
尽管如此，许多政府官员仍坚持这些限制。众议院议长南希·佩洛西周五反驳了Cordileone对新冠肺炎相关限制的批评，称他应该“遵循科学”，而不是提倡更全面的集会和礼拜。
Grace Vest, 39, of Pleasant Hill, called the restrictions that San Fransisco has placed on religious institutions “harsh” and “overwrought.” Vest, a former San Francisco resident, drove about 30 minutes with her husband and four children into the city Sunday morning to attend the march and support the archbishop.
39岁的格蕾丝·维斯特住在普莱森特山，她称旧金山对宗教机构的限制“苛刻”且“过度紧张”。维斯特曾是旧金山居民，周日早上，她和丈夫以及四个孩子驱车约30分钟来到旧金山，参加游行并支持大主教。
“People can grumble and complain but the archbishop decided to actually take a stand and demand that we have families that are able to worship here,” she said.
她说:“人们可以抱怨和抱怨，但大主教决定表明立场，要求我们的家庭能够在这里做礼拜。”
While most Bay Area churches turned to platforms like Zoom and Facebook Live to hold services for their congregants at home, many religious leaders and followers believe that if proper health recommendations are followed — such as six feet of space between chairs and mask requirements — are followed, they should be allowed to reopen for in-person worship.
虽然大多数海湾地区教会转向平台放大和Facebook等生活在家举行他们的信徒,许多宗教领袖和追随者认为,如果遵循适当的健康建议,如六英尺的椅子和口罩之间的空间需求——之后,他们应该被允许重新对面对面的崇拜。
Vest, for instance, compared watching church services on Zoom over the past six months to her children’s experience with distance learning.
例如，维斯特将过去6个月在Zoom上观看教堂礼拜活动与她孩子的远程学习经历进行了比较。
“It’s just not real,” she said. “When we’re able to come together — even if we’re distanced — we’re all praying together and it’s just something you cannot replace.”
“这不是真的，”她说。“当我们能够走到一起的时候，即使我们距离遥远，我们也会一起祈祷，这是你无法替代的。”
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