A Catholic priest has apologized
after getting into hot water for presiding over
Mass in the sea on a beach in Calabria using a Lilo airbed as an
altar.
The Mass at Capo Colonna at the end of a youth camp organized by
the Libera anti-mafia association was criticized by the Church
authorities, who said certain standards needed to be maintained,
and sparked to a probe into alleged offence against a religion
by criminal prosecutors in Crotone.
"I absolutely did not intend to trivialize the Eucharist," said
Don Mattia Bernasconi on the website of his Milan parish, San
Luigi di Gonzaga.
"It was just Mass at the end of a week of work.
"But symbols are important and they speak, sometimes differently
to the way we want. I was naive"
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