Canceling Catholicism Until Further Notice
Early on in his papacy, Pope Francis likened the Church to a field hospital. But the analogy hasn’t held up amidst coronavirus fears. The diocese of Rome has suspended Masses through April 3. The idea of closing churches during a crisis is a peculiarly modern one. The ancient impulse during a crisis was not to abolish worship but to increase it.
In the age of the secularized Catholic Church, deference to the state, which prioritizes the body over the soul, is the order of the day. Even in America, where the risk of infection from coronavirus remains low...
,If what you want, ultimately, is a church of people with similar views on mass shootings and pandemics, you will be a very small church indeed.
if strident testing is not available, it is impossible to know if one has the disease and is therefore contagious. Absent this testing, forbidding large gatherings is the best thing to do for public safety
Those two groups make up a sizeable portion of the population
The Trads are also populated with a much greater concentration of young people.
I think we’re about to see why...
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