“Just a friendly reminder: There will be a Protestant Service (No Catholic Mass) for Good Friday today at the Pentagon Chapel,” reads a Friday email that went out to employees across the Pentagon.

A peeved employee passed it along.

April 03, 2026 - 17:07 UTC

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There’s actually no mass anywhere on Goid Friday. Now these clowns probably don’t know that. There a service on this day. But not at the Pentagon.
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Catholics don’t even celebrate mass on Good Friday
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Was the peeved employee Catholic? If so, they should know that Mass is not celebrated on Good Friday. There are other services, but no Mass.
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How ridiculous.
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This is especially stupid and exclusionary considering that Good Friday is the only day on the Catholic calendar when there ISN‘T a mass.
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There is no Mass on Good Friday or Easter Saturday.
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I feel like I'm missing something - why is it exclusionary to not have a Catholic mass on a day when Catholics wouldn't be holding mass?
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Thank you! I was wondering if I was the only one who remembered this! (And I was proud because I’ve been a committed lapsed Catholic for over four decades. Those synapses are still firing!)
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As a Lutheran pastor in my first church I always looked forward to the Catholic/Lutheran service we’d have on Good Friday. No communion meant we could all worship together.
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I was just thinking this!
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Goes to show they don’t know much about Catholicism. No Mass on Good Friday. It’s a service. We don’t celebrate Eucharist that day.
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Only violent extremist Protestant religion is allowed now. If you aren't asking God to murder our enemies you aren't welcome.
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I was going to ask how do you politely filter out the Catholics - I guess you don’t.
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Mass is not celebrated in the Catholic Church on Good Friday.
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I guess the Pope is proving to be too “woke,” and pro-DEI.
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Catholics don’t do mass on Good Friday
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I’d want to know WHO initiated
this very divisive narrative.
It’s Unconstitutional as well.

The Constitution doesn’t force us to belong to a religious group nor any religious groups - but rather we‘re protected From religion, as well.
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2/2 ChristIan Nationalists like Kegseth & others in the Pent have brought CN into the Gment to make decisions based on CN.
This is not Normal.
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No, there will be a Christian Dominionist service. No mainline liberal Protestants will be heard from. Remember Bishop Budde? She would not be welcome nor any other open minded, open hearted Protestants.
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Catholics don't celebrate Mass on Good Friday anyway, so go touch grass, Hegseth.
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That’s a kinder suggestion that I would’ve made.

Did you give up cussing for Lent?
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JD Vance just wrote a book on being a good Catholic
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As Pope Leo shreds him simultaneously! 🤣
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Even after JD Vance's dumb book? Haha, I feel like that's on purpose and if he ever ends up leading the MAGAs, they'll fall apart. Nobody respects him
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I’m catholic there is never a mass on Good Friday. Just the Stations of the Cross and a service.
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In fairness, Good Friday is the one day of the year where Catholics don’t celebrate the Mass.
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Hyper-technically, there is never Catholic Mass on Good Friday……but that’s clearly not what Hegseth & company are referring to.
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American version of the Taliban
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Fucking Evilgelicals at it again.

Why am I not surprised?
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FAFO
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"A friendly reminder", interesting
And if one turns up undercover and is exposed..........
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So, the Pope hit a nerve, I see

How did all the Catholic converts react, does anyone know?
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It also shows some ignorance.

There is never a Catholic Mass on Good Friday. It's a prayer service for the day, but not a mass.
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Didn’t this shit end bad in Ireland
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"The Democratic Party approved this message."
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Nevermind, on Good Friday, Catholics do not celebrate mass, but a Liturgy of the Word, followed by the Solemn Intercessions (the same throughout the world), the Veneration of the Cross of the Saviour, and the Holy Communion with host consecrated the day before.
Obviously, the writer didn't know it.
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thanks for reminding us what a very good word is PEEVED
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Uh. What sort of service are they doing that works for Episcopals, Southern Baptists, Quakers, Mennonites, UCCs, etc., but not Roman Catholics?

Also, how did the government decide which religious groups to officially support?
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I mean to be fair any Mennos in the Pentagon are already having some intense cognitive dissonance. Trying to decide if they're Protestant or not probably won't increase it too much.
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Every Christian should have protested.
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They don't do mass on Good
Friday.
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Didn’t Trump just fire the (Black) Head Chaplain in the Military just in time for Easter.
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These Nazi devils have no true faith.
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The Christian nationalists will be pleased.
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"friendly" minus the friendly
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Jesus Christ.
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A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed it is not hosting another, separate Good Friday service for Catholic employees.

“The Protestant service is the only service scheduled in the Pentagon chapel today,” they said in a statement.
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🥱
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Are they doing anything for Passover for Jewish service members?
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This was done specifically as an anti-Catholic thing, because there is no such thing as a generic "Protestant" service.
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They mad at the pope who sees right through their Nazi bullshit
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Christo-fascist much?
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They're such sht bags.
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Sht bags.
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I wonder how this resonates at SCOTUS.
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the existence of a "pentagon chapel" is very very strange and id argue violates separation of church and atate
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“I guess so the Catholics know their kind ain’t welcome,” said the Defense Department employee who shared the email.

“It’s so ridiculous.”
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Big FU to Catholics? Trump is now the new Jesus according to the Mar a Laga look White House Pastor.
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Inquired to a Canon law expert. It is against the law to have Mass on Good Friday (consecration on the death day is not a good look). But a lot of other services are allowed and encouraged, e.g. Stations of the Cross.
So explicitly excluding other services is the anti-Catholic action.
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What does the protestant religion say about genocide?

Holding people prisoner without due process?

Raping and torturing people you hold prisoner

Holding people in siege?
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I think the email *might* be trying to be helpful, not exclusive--they're alerting Catholics that it's a worship service, not a mass. The irony (& in some ways a worse mistake) is that Good Friday is the one day in the year when there is no Catholic mass anywhere in the world.
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Awaiting comment from JD Vance
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To be fair, the Catholic liturgy for Good Friday couldn’t be held in that chapel anyway.
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So G.I. Michelob wants to go back to the days when Catholics were discriminated against.

Seriously, does the media not realize that this fool is just...a White supremacist religious fanatic?
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imagine the boot lickers of Supreme court …justices like Alito, Roberts, Kavanaugh, Barrett, Thomas .. to be so happy to
stick to democrats and libs and they find out this
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What's the difference? I'm Jewish, so I honestly don't know.
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Pope Leo really got under Hegseth's skin.

Let the sectarian wars begin!
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oh my, this sounds even worse. are you aware that's propaganda from the baddies? your source may have no idea either.

"The White Christian Nationalist service..." fixes it, if I may suggest.
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The article could use some further explanation. "No Catholic Mass," is ambiguous - there wouldn't be a Catholic mass on Good Friday anyway. Is there typically a Catholic liturgical rite in the chapel on GF?
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What usually happens at the Pentagon chapel on Good Friday?
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Poor JD
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Catholics don't have Mass on Good Friday.
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Unfortunately there are no Catholic veterans in the cabinet who could speak up.
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These guys can’t wait to finish their New Crusade so they can get to the New Thirty Years War
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There couldn't be a Good Friday Catholic mass because 𝑪𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒔 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑮𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝑭𝒓𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒔. You can have a Catholic service including Communion distribution, but you can't perform the consecration on Good Friday.
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The word is "service", not "mass". Catholics do have the Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion on Good Friday.
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Things I didn't know about Catholicism. Thank you
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It's called "Presanctified Liturgy". . . It's almost as olde as Christianity.
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The point is that the Pentagon is having a Protestants-only *service*.
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Will they be making lists of who shows up?
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Will Catholics wake up and start following their Pope rather than their Evangelical anti-abortion friends? The funny thing is how many Evangelicals don't even think Catholics are Christians.
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I'd like to know if anyone shows up. SHOWED up. And the chapel speaker was. That looney woman? Comparing tfg to Jesus? Sick.
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Did it actually say No Catholic? If so I’d say that is enough to impeach Kegsbreath. Can somone please let him drink again. He is an insufferable sober.
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You may need to revise this taking into consideration that the notice may just have been saying there wasn't going to be a Catholic Mass because there is never a Catholic Mass on Good Friday, which, frankly, as a Protestant myself, I didn't know. Not that there is no Catholic Good Friday service.
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Anyone who uses the term “friendly reminder” is a monster even before we arrive at the disgusting content
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I find it weird that they would define it as "a Protestant service". Surely it's a specific denomination? Aren't there multiple Protestant denominations with different norms?
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Of course, Good Friday isn't a Mass (I know not the point but still).
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Are they sending out emails asking who is a Protestant Catholic Baptist etc? How is that legal?
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well, technically, there *is* no catholic Mass on Good Friday.
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Good Friday is literally the only day when there is no Mass in the Catholic Church. They could have just announced a service and let it go. The Catholics would ignore!
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This may be a miscommunication. Good Friday is the one day that Catholics do not celebrate Mass anywhere. In truth, then, it is one day when Catholics do often have ecumenical services with Protestants. So, its strange this wasn't that.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the local Catholic chaplains intend to hold their own services for the Veneration of the Cross and Communion (with pre-consecrated hosts) - intentionally somber and subdued.

If the military stops offering Catholic services at all, then SCOTUS might actually do something.
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Just for clarity (and not to excuse the Protestant wing of Christofascism), there isn't a mass anywhere in the Catholic world on Good Friday.

Sister Mary Ralph would be pleased I remember.
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I’m Jewish so I really have no clue what I’m talking about. But that email reads more informational than exclusionary to me? Like, letting people know what flavor their violation of church and state service will be.
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"Like, letting people know what flavor their violation of church and state service will be."

That's where my thought process went to as well. So much for that eh? :/
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I stopped talking to a MAGA friend who is a devoted Catholic. I hope she sees this.
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"Just a friendly reminder"??? Sent to all(?) Pentagon employees? SMH
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The Pentagon could have said a Christian service was offered. Why not?
a. The Pentagon sees Protestant and Christian as synonymous.
b. The Pentagon does not see Catholics as Christians.
c Both of the above.
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There is NEVER Mass on Good Friday. Anywhere. Ever. There are a million reasons to be pissed about the Christofascists in office but this isn't one of them.
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There isn't Mass, but there is a Catholic Good Friday service, the Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion.
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Then why put it in the email?
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As I recall, there is never a Mass on Good Friday. But I definitely think Catholics should’ve been invited to this service.
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Also by "Protestant" they mean "Evangelical White Nationalist batshitism"
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GOP says we are founded on "the Christian Church". Okay fine, but which Christian Church?
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This is SOOOOOOO evangelical. Is everyone starting to get what these religious fascists want?
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Catholic Holy Mass is never said on Good Friday … ever!
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Ok but this is like the only day we don't do Mass. Like I get what they are saying and that we aren't welcome but the good Friday service is not Mass
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Which would argue that Catholics should have been invited

But Evangelicals don't not consider Catholics to be "real" Christians. See also: Mormons.

Both groups of MAGA will be more than a bit surprised
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