The U.S. bishops already saw this coming at the beginning of the year and said Catholics should attend separate Masses for the two days.

News reports said that flames prompted evacuation orders for nearly 200,000 people, destroyed nearly 200 homes and remained mostly out control as of early Dec. 6. To date, officials had reported no fatalities.

The letter called for a reversal of the bill’s plan to gradually increase taxes on taxpayers in the lowest income brackets while maintaining tax cuts for higher earners, including the most wealthy.

The Supreme Court's order means that the Trump administration can fully carry out the ban -- which is now in its third iteration.

“We are standing on an abyss of a revolutionary change on how religions have operated in Canada.”

Pope Francis said the bishops' document "explains precisely the meaning of Chapter VIII of 'Amoris Laetitia.'