Snopes calls it a mixture of true and false
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 | TRUE: Contract priests are prohibited from conducting religious functions on U.S. military bases during the federal government shutdown. |
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 | FALSE: President Obama ordered that military priests be arrested for holding Mass during the federal government shutdown. |
...."Therefore, a subset of Catholic military personnel who are stationed at bases that have no active duty Catholic chaplains and are instead being staffed by contract priests will have to go elsewhere for religious services for the duration of the
shutdown — if they wish to attend Mass or take part in a baptism, for example, they will have to go to local churches or other off-base locations for those functions. (U.S. military personnel stationed in some parts of the world may not be able to find local English-speaking priests, or any priests at all, however.)
"It isn't true, however, that "President Obama ordered that military priests be arrested for saying the Mass during the government shutdown...."
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