Catholic Church

By Eric Sammons, Crisis Magazine - One year ago today, darkness engulfed the United States. On March 18, 2020, the final holdout American dioceses suspended public Masses, making it impossible (or at least disobedient) for a lay Catholic in this country to attend Mass... The rapidity of the shutdown was breathtaking. When the first bishops cancelled public Masses it was startling, but then every single American bishop—without any exceptions—decided it was best to shut down their parishes.

By Sister Laus Gloriae, O.C.D., Integrated Catholic - Is there a best time to pray, given all the activities each day holds for me—working at my job and caring for and being with my family makes a very full day? Answer: ...The important thing is that you want to pray. You yearn to spend some time with God in prayer. Each person has to find the “islands of prayer” in the sea of our frenzied activity so apparent in our culture. ...

By Msgr. Charles Pope - St. Thomas Aquinas answered the question in the following way: Christ willed to suffer while yet young, for three reasons. First of all, to commend the more His love by giving up His life for us when He was in His most perfect state of life. Secondly, because it was not becoming for Him to show any decay of nature nor to be subject to disease …. Thirdly, that by dying and rising at an early age Christ might exhibit beforehand in His own person the future condition of those who rise again. ...