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March 21, 2020

Today’s Heresy: Questioning the Response to the Coronavirus, by Dr. Jeff Mirus

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - Economies are being destroyed around the world, including in the United States. This is happening not because of the devastation of the Coronavirus but because of the governmental fear that the virus might be devastating if extreme anti-plague measures are not adopted. As the prevention measures become more and more stringent, most of the public assumes they are more and more necessary—that COVID-19 must really be a very serious threat. After all, even if it isn’t so bad right now, it might mutate into something worse.

March 21, 2020

How to Keep Holy the Sabbath Day Without a Public Mass, by Dorothy C. McLean

By Dorothy Cummings McLean, LifeSiteNews - Both the Catholic Church in England and Wales and the Catholic Church in Scotland have announced that public Masses will be suspended in these countries indefinitely because of the coronavirus pandemic… In England and Wales, the last public Masses will take place on Friday. In Scotland, they will take place on Thursday… The inability to attend Mass is a hard cross for Catholics to bear anywhere, but it is particularly crushing in Great Britain, where Mass was essentially illegal from the late 16th century until the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1791. …

March 20, 2020

Msgr. Charles Pope: Stopping by the First Station of the Cross in Time of National Crisis

By Msgr. Charles Pope - We might do well at a moment like this to ponder the First Station of the Cross, in which Jesus is tried before Pilate. At a critical moment Pilate said, “Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?” Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over me if it were not given to you from above”(John 19:10-11). Jesus thus acknowledges Pilate’s authority as governor but reminds him of its true origin… Most of us right now are experiencing increasing restrictions on our movement….

March 20, 2020

America: ‘At Home’ With Absurd Consumer Excess, by Addison Del Mastro

By Addison Del Mastro, American Conservative - Every culture has a custom or symbol that encapsulates its entire way of life. For example, a salami hanging from the ceiling of a cramped neighborhood deli is Italy. Japan is a tea ceremony or an orderly subway rush hour. And for us, that condensed cultural symbol is not the Declaration of Independence or the ragtag militia or the all-American con man with a bridge to sell you. ....