Jeanie Hannaman

By Father Carter Griffin, National Catholic Register - As we honor Jesus the Good Shepherd in the Sunday Gospel, it is also an opportunity to turn our minds towards his vicars, the priests who serve us with generosity and fidelity. Many people are experiencing isolation and loneliness in this pandemic, and priests are not immune from these trials… Not in recent memory have our shepherds been separated from their flocks, from their brother priests, and from their own friends and families as they are today. Many are feeling quite alone. The antidote can be found in some of the last words spoken by Jesus…

By Roberto de Mattei, LifeSiteNews - What should the Church be doing, and what should Catholics be doing, in view of a pandemic like the one presently assailing us? We need to remember that all the evils of humanity have their origin in sin and that public sin is graver than individual sin; that God punishes social sins with the plagues of diseases, wars, famine and natural disasters. If the world does not repent, and most of all if the men of the Church continue to be silent, the chastisements which in the beginning are inflicted in a mild manner, are doomed to become increasingly worse, till you get to the annihilation of entire nations. This is the essence of the Fatima message ...