Christians across Quebec are about to face a new legal landscape on Good Friday, only a day after the provincial legislature adopted a law that could crack down on their annual Way of the Cross processions.
In Montreal, several hundred people joined Archbishop Christian Lépine in a march of “prayer, reflection and silence” that wound its way through the streets behind a large crucifix, stopping at several historic churches in a commemoration of Jesus’s journey to the cross.
But the Easter weekend tradition will likely become harder to organize in future years, now that the province has passed a law to ban public prayer….