CATHOLIC NEWSWATCH: “Updated: Nathan Phillips rally protesters attempted to disrupt Mass at DC’s National Shrine” – CNA

January 28, 2019 Catholic News Wire - Faith Central - Steve Welsh Catholic, Catholic Faith, Catholic News, Children, Christian Persecution

File Photo of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

In the aftermath of Catholic high school children being accosted and harassed by adult men at the Lincoln Memorial following the March For Life, the Catholic News Agency has reported that one of the same adult protesters also led a group creating a disturbance and attempting to enter Mass across town at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

“While demonstrators chanted and played ceremonial drums, protesters at a rally led by Nathan Phillips attempted Jan. 19 to enter Washington, DC’s Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception during a Saturday evening Mass. The group of demonstrators was stopped by shrine security as it tried to enter the church during a Saturday evening Vigil Mass …. ‘It was really upsetting,’ the guard told CNA. ‘There were about 20 people trying to get in, we had to lock the doors and everything.’ … The guard told CNA the situation was ‘tense.’ …”