Catholic churches in Brooklyn have been careful to keep parishioners socially distanced and have followed public health recommendations with success, Dolan argued, but the Brooklyn diocese has been “right to resist” Cuomo’s latest order, signed last week in response to rising clusters of COVID-19 cases.

“We who have done all this so scrupulously and successfully should not be punished for the failure of others,” Dolan wrote. “To have all of the steps we’ve taken be ignored, and to face the prospect of indefinite unreasonable restrictions placed upon our churches is just not fair!”