It took a lawsuit against the federal government for the Knights of Columbus of Petersburg, Virginia, to receive permission to host a Catholic Mass at a military cemetery on Memorial Day.
This week, Knights of Columbus Council 694 filed a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia seeking to compel the park service to permit the group to host a Catholic Mass on the grounds of Poplar Grove National Cemetery in Petersburg, the final resting place of thousands of Civil War soldiers.
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