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Brooklyn bishop hails ruling, says diocese in line with pope

by Luis Andres Henao
| November 27, 2020 3:30 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — The longtime head of the Roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn said Friday that a ruling by the Supreme Court that barred New York from enforcing certain restrictions on religious services in areas hit hard by the coronavirus is a “good decision” that guarantees constitutional protections for the free exercise of religion.

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