Indonesian cardinal urges 'right choices' amid pandemic
Cardinal Suharyo tells Catholics to use faith to understand and overcome testing times in Lent message
Cardinal Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo of Jakarta. (Photo: Katharina R. Lestari/UCA News)
Cardinal Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo of Jakarta has issued a Lenten pastoral letter calling on Catholics to seize their lives back with regard to God to help meet the challenges caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Just like last year, we enter the Lenten season during a difficult time caused by the coronavirus which has shaken all fields of life,” the prelate said in the letter read out in a video message played during Sunday Masses on Feb. 14 ahead of Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent.