: is the issue.
It is the only fact presented. There could have been all sorts of other issues that influenced the decision but they are not given in the article. The article doesn't even say where it is so that a reader can do more research. Why would that be I wonder?
: All you can say is there are
: two conditions relating to noise specified
: in the permission. Even if noise was THE
: issue then that would certainly give the
: Catholics a good reason to question why they
: were prohibited when "Fr. Fogelqvist
: further noted that church’s bells are
: small" and presumably unlikely to cause
: a disturbing, excessive noise.
Again, it is not a fact that 'small bells' are quiet bells. It's quite conceivably the opposite! But, again, we don't know.
: True, but it's created controversy and
: difficult questions. There's at least prima
: facie the APPEARANCE of discrimination.
No, I really don't think there is. We simply don't have enough verifiable evidence of anything much at all, except that it was an issue of noise.
: I don't think it's unreasonable for people to
: question that and seek clarification.
I'm all for seeking clarification but that's certainly not the tone of the article you posted.
: Why??
Basic stuff, I reckon. As a person interested in the truth, I'd at least like the opportunity to investigate further.
: All the more reason why it should be
: questioned and clarified.
If you or I -- the readers of the article -- wanted to do that, we'd have to find alternative sources to see if there really is an issue of if this is actually a beat up.
Stop press: I did more searching and found this article in a local news medium.
At the bottom there is an update. Google translates it thus:Update: A few days after the article was published, SR [Sverige Radio] wrote that the church of Sankt Michael had never submitted an application for clocking. Kyrkoherde Ingvar Fogelqvist [the priest] tells us that the information he has received has been oral and that he lived in the idea that there was an application. He says he could have looked more closely and regret it all to SR.
I look forward to the updated information in CNA/EWTN News!
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