The Good Friday Night Fights

There's no time like Holy Week for a good punch-up.

Jerusalem, Mar. 21 (CWNews.com) - Public officials in Jerusalem are bracing for Eastertide conflicts between Orthodox and Catholic clerics at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, according to the London Daily Telegraph .

Local officials have reportedly called in Catholic and Orthodox leaders for discussions in recent days, hoping to ward off a repetition of an ugly fight that occurred last September, when Orthodox monks charged and battered first Franciscan friars, then local police at the basilica. The Telegraph reports that a videotape of that incident shows the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Irineos instructing monks "to close the door of the Franciscan chapel by force."

The entire sad article is here.

[And first noticed on The York Forum.]