DPAThursday is yet another public holiday in the Catholic states of southern and western Germany. According to Dom Radio, the radio station of the Cologne Cathedral, celebrating the fest on Maundy Thursday wouldn’t befit the reflective nature of Easter. Catholics in states that don’t have a public holiday have their processions on the following weekend. The political dimensionAccording to Dom Radio, the processions have often had a subversive element. And even today the parades are a way of saying that religion belongs in the public sphere as well as the private, Dom Radio writes.

Source: The Local June 15, 2017 10:52 UTC