Father Giancarlo Ruggieri celebrates a livestreamed Easter Mass in San Giorgio Ionico, Italy, on April 12, 2020. (CNS photo/Alessandro Garofalo, Reuters)
In a Lenten season with a possible end of the Covid-19 pandemic in sight, I remain skeptical of claims that restrictions on how many people can gather inside a church for Mass violate religious liberty, an argument made in the Diocese of Brooklyn’s recent lawsuit against the State of New York. (The U.S. Supreme Court found in favor of the diocese last November, and in February it sided with other churches in a similar case in California.) This is because I am aware of how recent, how uncommon and how privileged the custom of weekly Mass attendance is. For centuries, and for all sorts of reasons, weekly (or even monthly) Mass was simply not an option for most Catholics. In many parts of the world, it still isn’t.
Una mujer de 105 años superó el coronavirus y dijo que fue gracias a las pasas de uva remojadas en ginebra
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Una mujer de 105 años que venció al COVID-19 contó el extraño ritual que según dice la ayudó a sobrevivir tantos años
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Tears come easier to me these days maybe because I am older. Sometimes, while preaching, I will touch a deep vein and find it difficult to go on. I might be reading an autobiography and see a scene evoking a memory from my own journey and I have to lay the book down as memories flood in. Such was my experience reading Frank J. Butler’s autobiography,
Belonging: One Catholic’s Journey.
Butler lost his father at a young age, and his mother raised a family of six. At the age of 13, Butler entered a seminary in Little Rock, Ark., and spent eight years there in a world he generally describes as wonderful a world in which one learned to pray and to work hard and to live with others.
Un católico en la Casa Blanca 57 años después
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