Holy Week
Diocesan guidelines for the Holy Week liturgies have been released. The blue-gloved hand of COVID-mindedness has rifled through them and extracted numerous things considered not amenable to disease prevention. Some of these may make sense, others less so.
Among the changes: there will be no procession of palms on Palm Sunday, nor will the people partake in the traditional reading of the Passion Gospel. There will be no ceremony of the washing of the feet on Holy Thursday, the memorial of the Lord’s mandate to the Apostles, and no sort of Veneration of the Cross on Good Friday that would involve physical touch, because germs. No lighting of candles nor blessing of the baptismal water at the Holy Saturday vigil. Still no singing from the congregation, nor chanting from the priests.
While it should be acknowledged that our elderly Faithful and those with some form of frail health continue to be at risk of being made seriously ill with COVID, it is also clear that other risks are emerging from the way our society and the Church are managing the situation.
Some of these risks are spiritual. For the second consecutive year we have lost the opportunity to enter fully into the Church’s traditional Holy Week liturgies. The mysterious expressions of the Lord toward us, embodied in our liturgies and sacramentals and our customs of devotion, cause us to take necessary steps toward the Lord, sometimes steps we cannot take on our own.
Our liturgies make the mysteries of our Faith present and available to us, and create the space within which we partake deeply in that which we profess. Or so the Church has always taught: lex orandi, lex credendi. We must presume that Christ intended that they remain available to His people precisely because we would need them, and because such is the language in which we become able to worship Him. Otherwise, what is the point?
If this is the case, then there is some level of recklessness in redacting them or placing them out of people’s reach. Yes, we have to be concerned with care of the body and human life, our own and those of others. But loss of relation to the mysteries of Faith is a thing that may prove deadlier.
We pray some remedy to this may be offered.
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Interesting take on our current mess. I wonder if United in Heart is trying to make us more Catholic or more like the culture? See
https://www.crisismagazine.com/2021/america-is-a-pagan-nation-now-what
Uniting in Heart is just another recycled decline-management program designed to keep just enough money in the system (through fundraising, parish consolidation and asset liquidation) to see the aging boomer diocesan leadership comfortably into retirement and the grave.
That’s why the rollout of “the plan” last year started with yet another fundraising campaign coupled with the first phase of parish consolidations under the made-up word “pastorates”. Not much else will happen now and in the future except more of the same: more parish consolidations, more desperate fundraising campaigns, more asset liquidation). All of the plan’s talk about evangelization and good-times ahead is just supposed to be a sweet-smelling smokescreen. Sure they may try to push protestant programs like ALPHA and wreck the churches with TV-screens and rock bands (for those parishes that can afford that garbage), but it’s all ultimately a distraction while they pursue what they really want: money.
Then, in a few short years, when the bishop retires and the current leadership is demoted/fired, we’ll be at the mercy of a new bishop. May God bless us with a good bishop who has a zeal for souls, reverent liturgies, and priestly vocations. I actually find myself praying for this future bishop now. He will have so much damage to repair when he arrives.
I think our “leaders” (and I use that term loosely) need to be reminded that the purpose of life isn’t just to stay alive.
I don’t have any energy to criticize the leadership anymore. They’re weak, opportunistic, worldly sellouts. I’ll continue to pray for them and their conversions, but I’ve moved on. I’ve got my own salvation to work out, and it’s pretty clear to me they’re not interested in “accompanying” me on this narrow path.
Oh, and I’m still waiting for an apology for closing churches last year and cutting-off access to the sacraments.
Here’s your apology: “In this of all years, I need to recognize the suffering of our clergy as a way of thanking them. Their witness to Christ through the pandemic has been amazing. ” Bishop Doherty
How much longer, Lord? How much longer?
Wait. Did he really say that?
Yes, in his article in The Catholic Moment. I read it, reluctantly, before using it to help start a fire.
Where can these guidelines be found? Some details in this post are missing from the article I read in The Catholic Moment.
Perhaps we must
Wash each others’ feet?
Sing Hallel Psalms as we exit the Church Holy Thursday?
Carry our own Crucifixes to Venerate during the Solemn Liturgy?
With no leadership from the top, parishes have quickly devolved into covid-factions. The faithful need to shop around if they want a parish that meets their spiritual needs and anxiety levels. For those Karens out there that wear 10 masks and like the idea of forcing people against their will to take the vaccine, there are parishes out there for you to virtually join while you sanctimoniously scold all who disagree with you. For those that, well, aren’t Karens, there are some brave parishes out there (both in and out of diocese) that are slowly trying to reclaim some semblance of the One True Faith. I dare not “out them”. Karens are ferocious creatures. It’s best to keep these good parishes in the catacombs for now. Happy Holy Week!
I really wish you could list the brave ones as there are some of us not in-the-know, but I completely understand why one would/should not do so. Sadly, we are in one of those times in history–perhaps THE time in history. Sadly, my parish appears to be growing pansies this spring instead of cultivating common sense. Definitely, adjusting next month’s tithe accordingly.
Yes, agreed. Our parish has typed in bold that masks will be required at all Easter services—which are two days before the April 6 reducing mask requirements by Gov. So, redirecting April’s tithe to worthy charity.
Ironic that it seems a disturbing number of Catholic leaders seem to irrationally fear death so much so as to impede living given all we know of this world and of what this week is all about.
I got to experience Holy Week & Easter mask-free at a few different parishes. Indiana isn’t that big. Hit the road. Go find parishes that love our Blessed Lord more than being afraid of a virus with 99% recovery rate. You’ll feel Catholic again. I guarantee it.
This is my third attempt to comment, but it says it looks as if I already made this comment? Must a person “join the club” before comments allowed? Or am I missing a step somewhere?
1. Bring your own Holy Water. (Reminiscent of a holy priest (RIP), whoops said “Bring your own bell.” when a former Altar Boy cried when the bells were discontinued at Mass.)
2. Create your own “unofficial” procession along the way to and from the Church or other Socially distanced gathering place. (This will help to free the diocese from liabilities. (I doubt those going into Jerusalem with the Lord had permission from the High Priest)
3. Quick! This Holy Week take time to learn how to sign the Gloria, the Lord’s Prayer, and your favorite Easter Hymn (well, maybe it won’t be played for fear some might disobey and have the audacity to sing along. Find out which hymn will be used, & practice, so you can sign it for Easter or the Vigil. (ASL can be found online)
4. Go to Vatican News website & watch thousands gathered for Palm Sunday procession & loud songs in Iraq. Phenomenal!
5. Don’t miss Pope Francis’s Urbi St Orbit Easter Blessing. Like him or not, he is our Pope, & his Blessing is as that of the apostles. Ditto for Bishop Doherty, as far as whether or not you like him or his choices. He is the one God Sees Fit To Give us at this time. He at least has offered to listen to and answer our questions. If you have serious concerns, as many of us do, the least we can do it make him aware of them.
….I feel a bit alone in striving to honor our leaders while expressing my concerns and objections to many recent decisions that are far afield of rational approaches to prevent virus spread, but chiefly, “adjusting” our liturgical practices, eliminating”essential” elements of the Liturgy itself, as if Jesus Breathing His Life Into unleavened bread Will Spread Deadly Virus to His Flock!
Happy Holy Week in spite of all that fights against Holiness. Let us hold in prayer all who cannot participate in any of the liturgies, whether due to health concerns, restrictions, or lack of Faith. At least we’re not locked out as was the case for some of us for months this past year.
Lord Have Mercy. Father Forgive, they know not what they do.
1. Bring your own Holy Water. (Reminiscent of a holy priest (RIP), whoops said “Bring your own bell.” when a former Altar Boy cried when the bells were discontinued at Mass.)
2. Create your own “unofficial” procession along the way to and from the Church or other Socially distanced gathering place. (This will help to free the diocese from liabilities. (I doubt those going into Jerusalem with the Lord had permission from the High Priest)
3. Quick! This Holy Week take time to learn how to sign the Gloria, the Lord’s Prayer, and your favorite Easter Hymn (well, maybe it won’t be played for fear some might disobey and have the audacity to sing along. Find out which hymn will be used, & practice, so you can sign it for Easter or the Vigil. (ASL can be found online)
4. Go to Vatican News website & watch thousands gathered for Palm Sunday procession & loud songs in Iraq. Phenomenal!
5. Don’t miss Pope Francis’s Urbi St Orbit Easter Blessing. Like him or not, he is our Pope, & his Blessing is as that of the apostles. Ditto for Bishop Doherty, as far as whether or not you like him or his choices. He is the one God Sees Fit To Give us at this time. He at least has offered to listen to and answer our questions. If you have serious concerns, as many of us do, the least we can do it make him aware of them.
….I feel a bit alone in striving to honor our leaders while expressing my concerns and objections to many recent decisions that are far afield of rational approaches to prevent virus spread, but chiefly, “adjusting” our liturgical practices, eliminating”essential” elements of the Liturgy itself, as if Jesus Breathing His Life Into unleavened bread Will Spread Deadly Virus to His Flock!
Happy Holy Week in spite of all that fights against Holiness. Let us hold in prayer all who cannot participate in any of the liturgies, whether due to health concerns, restrictions, or lack of Faith. At least we’re not locked out as was the case for some of us for months this past year.
Lord Have Mercy. Father Forgive, they know not what they do.
With the governor lifting more silly covid restrictions next month, who wants to take a wild guess as to what the brave, masculine, fearless bishops of Indiana will do in response?
We are all in this together. It is too soon to be lifting restrictions. We should not be going outside ever if there is a chance anyone might die. It is imperative the bishops continue the dispensation from going to Mass on Sunday’s until there is ZERO sickness. We should not be singing, praying or speaking period at Mass. In fact, with the live streaming, I am not even sure why anybody is going to a church for Mass anyway. Receiving Jesus is something that occurs in our hearts, not our mouths.
I do believe we’ve found our next diocesan Director of Panic & Virtue Signaling
The Governor is bowing to politics while the Bishops don’t have to. The virus is not over and we are not at herd immunity yet. So for a while we should keep doing all the right things to reduce the transmission. Catholic is helping our neighbor and loving them as ourselves. Let’s not give up yet when we are so near to rounding the corner on this.
Are we really that near to rounding the corner? Over a year ago we were told this would last a few weeks…Just to flatten the curve. Over a year later the yardstick has been moved many times. The vast majority of hospitals in the United States were never overrun, and the few that were, only were overrun for a few weeks. The yard stick will continue to be moved.
Until everyone has received the vaccine
Until the new variant is gone
Until everyone has received the vaccine for the new X variant from X Country
And sadly, our Church is going along with it all. 🙁
Don’t believe the lies. We are not near to “rounding the corner”, that is just how they get people to stay inline always thinking it’s almost over.
Don’t sound like such a frightened ninny. Being a good Catholic, one ought not promote bad science and irrational fear.
The governor is not all that brave either. Why are the restrictions not lifted now—before Easter? Why aren’t the restrictions being lifted completely?
I find myself in unexpected (partial) agreement with the diocese here, albeit for very different reasons. If the ‘rona has put an end to or temporarily suspended extrarubrical, familiar, and/or distracting practices such as holding hands during the Pater Noster, shaking hands and exchanging pleasantries during the Holy Sacrifice, and lay reading the Gospel during Mass, then I thank God for this providential outcome.
Lay reading the Gospel? Surely this is not done here? Surely the VC would respond to this sort of abuse? And this is an honest question, not sarcasm.
The lay reading the Gospel is in reference to the Gospel reading on Passion Sunday where in many parishes it is customary for the lay people to make a few responses as the mob. Not reading the entire Gospel.
I personally don’t mind not having lay people read these responses as part of the Passion Gospel, however, I think it is ridiculous to not have the responses as a “safety precaution” because of the coronavirus. Nonsensical is what that is.
First, this is NOT a vaccine it is gene therapy, this will be in your body making your body a virus factory and those who are vaccinated will begin producing and spreading new pandemics.
This diocese is jumping from Catholicism into full blown Protestantism, paganism! These “Catholic shepherds “ will follow the pope even into hell!
Where Dr. Scretape did you get your degree in immunology from? Just asking for a friend 😉
Happy Anniversary of last day before the COVID shutdown and restrictions, friends. This time last year, I was loading my kids up to get them to Confession at St. Tom’s and then heading to the last Mass in Lafayette. The next day, the Churches were locked against us, and we have yet to be told that Mass is essential again. St. Joseph, Guardian of the Church, pray for us!
2020: The year the masks went on the faces of the faithful and the year the masks fell off the faces of our church leadership.
Well stated!
I love the Catholic Moment: Fr. Ted Dudzinski being baptized by Fr. Bates in the recent issue.
Really?! Does the Dean of the $9M retreat center (look for a fund raiser for that white elephant on the horizon), need more publicity?
Of all the photos of Fr. Bates public ministry, that one?
Haven’t seen the article. Don’t care. Not relevant to Holy Week. RW please remove comment not related to topic. Last post on Intentions was destroyed by unrelated topics.
Haven’t seen the article. Don’t care. Not relevant to Holy Week. RW please remove comment not related to topic. Last post on Intentions was destroyed by unrelated topics.
For my part, I have never liked that three part reading of the Gospel on Palm Sunday and Good Friday, so I am happy to just have the priest or deacon read it as written. You can’t improve on the Gospel by trying to make it relevant or whatever the purpose of that is. Same with the palms. Just let people pick up the blessed palms on their way out of Mass. We don’t need processions to improve on the Mass. Let’s do thinks that make sense and restore reverence. It’s been a year now and it’s time to give us back our Holy Water (doesn’t spread covid) take away the cleaning supplies, and the ropes. Return sacredness to our churches and Masses. Quit bowing to the fear of lawsuits and the god of government (ala Rome of the past). And signing up for permission to come to Mass? Terrible! Not very welcoming! The bishops need to withdraw the dispensation that has kept people from the sacraments. They can then see how many even come back. The bishops need to have some faith in God so their people will too. Some bishops have already withdrawn the dispensation. Bishop Doherty needs to now also. Palm Sunday would be a great time. Time to man up. Oh, and this isn’t a vaccine. It’s gene therapy. Doesn’t prevent infection from The Corona. Just makes the corrupt lots of money. It’s too bad so many listened to the nightly news rather than real doctors. Our parishes lost so much because of ignorance.
er Technical point on the procession with palms. It is a part of the old rite. Went to a TLM church this Holy Week and you actually receive the Palm kneeling and kiss the priests hand as well. I agree with almost everything else you said though.
Are we really going to have no veneration of the Cross?! Can’t we have it and those that are physically/mentally/spiritually infirm just not go up?! This is so wrong.
The directive indicates that people may bow toward the cross, with another option being a period of time sitting in the pews looking toward the cross. No touching or kissing of the crucifix is permitted. Likewise, people can receive palms from a designated, socially-distanced individual (who must wear gloves), but they may not form a procession.
As noted previously, it appears pansies will be in full bloom this Easter Triduum.
No blooms. They are wilting, sickly, pansies…devoid of all color, fragrance, and vitality.
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“Now in the early morning, when He was returning to the city, He became hungry. And seeing a lone fig tree by the road, He came to it and found nothing on it except leaves alone; and He *said to it, “No longer shall there ever be any fruit from you.” And at once the fig tree withered.” (Matthew 21:18-19)
Oh, I’m just feeling that “Mission”, “Community”, and “Witness” with all this covid-insanity. There is an ironic sense of justice in all this: Just as our diocese was going to embark on yet another vapid “New-Evangelization”, feel-good, parish-closure scheme (Uniting in Heart), the virus sucks all the oxygen out the room, exposes the hierarchy for the charlatans they are, and turns the Church into one of the most cold and unwelcoming places to be in. Shopping at Walmart is less restrictive. At least every other aisle isn’t roped-off and I don’t have to “sign-up” to go shopping.
Matthew 7:6 comes to mind. Our hierarchy has thrown what is holy to the dogs and the pearls of the Church’s beauty to the swine. Is it any wonder the faithful feel trampled under-foot and torn to pieces?
If I were by some incredibly remote possibility to catch and die from the ‘rona as a result of saying the words of the Palm Sunday Gospel, then I would die repenting of my sins and would accept that. As it is, there is probably an equal chance that the church roof would fall in on my head, and I would accept that too and for the same reasons–as better Christians than myself have done from the very first days in their catacombs. I have said those words aloud every year of my life since I made my first communion. Every single year, whether I was close to God or wandering far from Him. Now some of the chief acts of public repentance and gestures of belief are taken away.
The fact is we all will die–today ,tomorrow, fifty years from now. You can’t extend that time one second by taking away things that lead us to embrace our salvation, and even if you could, it would still be wrong.
This is worldly. Don’t be worldly, Bishop.
No April tithing to the parishes/diocese? Redirect it to a worthy charity instead?
This is all thanks to the pope who continues to mislead the church.Step down already
Our diocese is paying money to hire consultants to tell us how to get more people on the pews. This is one of the more ironic twists of the diocese in recent months. We are literally turning away parishioners at some parishes because they are not on a list. Think about that. We are paying people to tell us how to get more people in the pews, while at the same time, telling people they have to go home and cannot attend Mass because they didn’t sign up.
I can tell you how to get more people in the pews, and I won’t charge the diocese 1 cent.
1. Let people who show up for Mass, go to Mass. (sadly this is not obvious)
2. Remove the dispensation from going to Mass. Tell people there are morally obligated to attend Mass like always, unless there is a grave reason for them to miss Mass. This is ALWAYS the case, and should be case during COVID as well. If somebody is extremely vulnerable, they cannot attend, but by having the dispensation (an indefinite one no less) many people who should be going, are not going.
3. Remove the silly ropes blocking off the pews. They make it so many people have to either sit closer together (ironic right?) or stand in the back close together. They are not making people more socially distanced, and they are making families having to stand in the back instead of having a pew where it is much easier and safer for their family to worship and witness the holy sacrifice of the Mass.
4. Bring the hymnals and missals back. They do not spread COVID.
5. Do not make people sign up to attend Mass. It makes them feel unwelcome.
6. Allow people to participate fully in the Mass…do not take away many of beautiful parts of the liturgy such as sacred music.
Exactly. The Diocese is a self-fulfilling prophecy. “Help! Please donate to UiH so that we can use your money to pull us further in debt!” The bishop cannot make decisions on his own, even when the faithful are begging and pleading with him do just do the obvious.
Ah the money trail! The latest campaign (aka ministries appeal) is a disaster.
Parishes are also suffering financially in weekend collections (probably leading to a self-fulfilling” prophecy that parishes needed to close/be consolidated), and people are made to feel guilty — about wanting to come to the Lord as they always have.
Meanwhile, the UiH Revolution that’s caused so much pain for our parishes is explained by a young priest (Desmond/Jack from Lost) who concludes, “Dream with me” in the February 21st edition of the Catholic Moment.
This isn’t a dream Father Desmond. It’s a nightmare.
PS Overheard after a Women’s Lenten Group meeting recently: “If we ran our home’s finances like the diocese, we’d be bankrupt.” Yes, ma’am. Yes indeed.
The sad comedy of errors that is our diocese is truly a pathetic site to behold. There is no leadership from the bishop (of the “saving-souls- is-job-one” variety), so the individual parishes are at the mercy of whoever is really in charge (clergy or laity). And in the age of covid, it’s usually the most tyrannical, fear-filled individuals that rule the roost: Whether it’s the out-of-touch pastor who can’t wait for vaccination-passports to become a reality so he can “card” people at the door (as if vaccination was the new standard for reception of the Holy Eucharist rather than being in a state of grace); to the horribly catechized boomer-laity (staff or volunteers) who have “served” at the parish for way too long (as if the parish was their little plaything) and are largely responsible for the various liturgical “covid-innovations” that are humiliating the faithful and driving the marginally-faithful out of the church forever.
And to deal with all the financial bleeding they started, our diocesan leadership is SPENDING money on a bunch of vultures from the worthless consultant-class to help inspire a financial turn-a-round. Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up.
If it wasn’t all true and way too close to home, this whole affair would make a great script for a new sarcasm-drenched, situation TV-comedy. I’d write it myself, but I’m too busy on my knees, rosary in hand, imploring Our Lady to send help soon and without delay.
Come, Lord Jesus.
Why are these draconian Covid measures, not only still in place, but getting more strict in some cases? Here is what the CDC has told about how the virus spread:
1. It’s spread is almost entirely airborne
2. Spread from droplets on surfaces is extremely minimal
3. Spread occurs almost entirely from prolonged exposure to an infected person, usually between 30-45 minutes of being in close contact
This is what the CDC tells us. And yet, we have all of these “safety measures” in place that are damaging the churches both physically, and spiritually.
1. Why are we washing down the pews after every Mass? This is not how the virus spreads, and yet we are spending thousands of dollars every weekend on supplies for cleaning, paying workers to do the cleaning, and physically damaging the pews from all the cleaning.
2. Why are there still no hymnals or missals allowed in Church? The CDC has told us the rarely spreads from droplets on physical objects. Is it because this is a convenient way to get us used to not having these items and make it easier to put up worship screens to “aid” us in worship?
3. Why the plexiglass screens to receive communion. The CDC has told us that the virus does spread from momentary contact with an infected person. It requires prolong contact (30-45 minutes) with an infected person. These screens alienate the people and make them feel that receiving Jesus is dangerous, it makes receiving him awkward, and it between them and the masks, it makes the likely hood of dropping Jesus so much higher. I see Jesus being dropped at EVERY Mass I attend now. It is so sad, and it should NOT be happening.
How stupid are some of these guidelines?
Seriously…why are the people being forbidden from participating in the Passion Gospel? Are you telling me that we can all all pray the Confiteor, the Our Father, and the Nicene Creed together, but making speaking five one word responses in the Gospel is dangerous? Please…somebody…explain the science behind this decision. It is beyond stupid.
Why is this Bishop doing this to us? There is no logic to this decision. This is just plain and simple a bad decision that is one of many driving people away and making them refuse to help out this diocese financially.
The Bishop is doing this to minimize liability. He doesn’t want a lawsuit to further burden him or the diocese. All of these outrageous rules are to keep liability exposure manageable. That is
the answer to the “why” of all of it.
Why is hope being erased from our Catholic experience? Hope is integral to the whole message of Easter.
Jesus asks us to accompany Him during Holy Week, and omitting that experience is a contradiction. Distribution of palms, veneration of the Cross, and all of the traditions of the triduum help us to prepare for Easter.
The local church is removing anything to look forward to and little reason to come back.
Time to change that JPII quote to reflect our real situation. “We are an Easter people (when we don’t think there is risk) and Alleleuia (would be our song if we weren’t so afraid of death to sing it.)”
How cowardly all these prohibitions and dispensations are! The saints of earlier times that faced hardships of much greater magnitude would be aghast, especially at our hierarchy, and current Church of Nice and No Risk.
Yes, it appears pansies will be well in bloom this Easter Triduum.
There are all these plans being made how to woo back the people that disappeared from Church after the lock downs and some of them are pretty gimmicky. Why don’t we A. get rid of the Mass dispensation that makes it seem like nobody really needs to come B. Make sure that people that do show up can actually get a seat and feel welcome (most churches have half the seats blocked off and some definitely not enough Masses to make up for that .Do we expect young families to stand in the back for 50 minutes?) and C. Give people the whole package of the liturgies that they miss: let them sing at Easter Mass and feel that the Church isn’t some shadow of itself after Covid-19.
Will there even be a faithful Catholic Church left for our children? If I lived near Indy, Louisville or Chicago, I would be joining the parishes that have the Traditional Latin Mass in a heartbeat. They seem to still understand the need to care for the spiritual needs of the people as well as their physical.
If you would honestly attend a regularly held TLM in the Lafayette area, there is currently an attempt to get one started at the last oasis, our ark only hope, the good parish of St. Boniface. Please contact them and let them know you would like your name on the petition.
Every other diocese in Indiana has at least one parish that offers a Sunday/Holy-Day TLM either run by diocesan priests or institutes (like the FSSP or IKCSP). Our diocese is the oddball. But I think we all knew that already.
*ICKSP, correction.
Yes and in the parishes of Madison County the head priest is considering separating at the Masses people that have taken the vaccine from ones that haven’t. Just when I think it couldn’t get any more ridiculous. I wonder when he goes shopping if he wants to know who is and who isn’t vaccinated…..doubt it. That should be interesting. If he is so concerned about a larger attendance maybe he should add more Masses. I miss our Catholic church too with true reverence for God. They are making God too little. Won’t end well.
Actually, if this priest is so worried about a virus with a 99% recovery rate, maybe he should check himself into a mental hospital. I am done with Covidism. It is not my religion.
That is bananas. If he plans to do that, he may as well make signs indicating which section is for “Sheep” and which section is for “Goats.”
Wow, he is really, really pushing people to get that vaccine. https://stambrosestmary.org/bulletins There are moral problems with it that haven’t really been addressed or taught about much in the pulpit. The USCCB just gave a new statement about the immoral way that the Johnson & Johnson vax is created! They test on fetal cells but they also use fetal tissue to produce the vaccine. No way am I getting it! If one of the missionary pastors wants to scold me or put me in the cheap seats for that, they can just try it.
The bishop should promote him to “Vicar of Vaccines”.
Does this priest happen to wear a brown shirt?
I miss my Catholic Church!