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By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - “It may be time to break out the masks against Covid, some experts say.” That was the headline on a CNN report posted yesterday... CNN is anxious to ensure that your anxiety level stays high. The report concedes, with almost palpable regret, that the CDC “doesn’t make a broad recommendation for everyone to adopt masks.”... In "Contagious Faith" I argued... that “the Church must spread hope, not fear, in a pandemic.” At a time when the mass media are already fanning the flames of fear, it would ease my mind, and give me hope, to hear a Catholic bishop promise: “I won’t shut down the churches again.”

By Joseph Pearce, The Imaginative Conservative - Such an understanding of Poland’s importance was encapsulated by G. K. Chesterton. “If Poland had not been born again,” he wrote during a visit to Poland in 1927, “all the Christian nations would have died.” Echoing this viewpoint, Hilaire Belloc wrote at the outbreak of World War Two that “the test is Poland”: “The determination to save Poland, which is a determination not only to defeat Prussia but to oust the vile and murderous Communism of Moscow, is the moral condition of victory. If we waver we are lost.”