Governments are using COVID-19 restrictions as ‘opportunity to suppress the Catholic Church’ December 10, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – In an interview with LifeSiteNews to be aired Friday, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former head of the Vatican’s powerful Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said “politicians don't have the right to forbid the Holy Mass and celebration of the sacraments.” While the cardinal did say that the Church willingly accepts some security measures to guard against the coronavirus, he noted that some governments and politicians are taking this as an “opportunity to suppress the Catholic Church.”The cardinal criticized the approach of various governments as “incoherent” since while allowing mass gatherings and tightly-packed public transit, they are forbidding Masses in large churches. “We must fight