By Kennedy Hall, LifeSiteNews - Hale asked the bishop if – given the rise of government restrictions, ostensibly due to COVID – he saw any parallels between what is happening in our part of the world today and what life was like under the Soviet Union... Schneider said that he did believe there were parallels, even if things did not appear the same on the surface... “The Soviet Union and other communist countries sought to reduce all … human existence to materialism, to the material aspects of the Earth,” Schneider explained.