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D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, Catholic Archdiocese Reach ‘Christmas Truce’ On Attendance Limits

Jon Brown
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, Catholic Archdiocese Reach ‘Christmas Truce’ On Attendance Limits
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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., and Democratic District Mayor Muriel Bowser reached a deal Tuesday in their legal wrangling over caps on church attendance.

The agreement comes a week after the archdiocese filed a lawsuit on Dec. 11 alleging that Bowser’s 50-person cap on all houses of worship, regardless of size, was unconstitutional. In response, Bowser loosened restrictions setting limits in churches to 25% of their capacity or up to 250 people, whichever is smaller.

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