Sweden is compelling parents to keep sending their children to school — including students with conditions that some evidence suggests may make them more at risk of catching COVID-19 — as part of its policy to avoid a fullscale lockdown in response to the coronavirus. MORE
So, people of color could get sick? Sounds to me, like a backfire.
Lincoln County, Oregon, has exempted non-white people from a new order requiring that face coverings be worn in public — to prevent racial profiling. MORE
The pandemic has made us reflect on “the relationship between man and the environment,” the pontiff told pilgrims and tourists gathered in Saint Peter’s Square for his weekly Angelus message. “The lockdown has reduced pollution and revealed once more the beauty of so many places free from traffic and noise.” MORE
Type in any 3 digit random numbers in Google search: i.e.: 999 new cases and you get: BREAKING: 999 new coronavirus cases, two dozen deaths confirmed in last 24 hours
666 new cases and you get: Virginia sees 666 new coronavirus cases, now reporting 46,905 statewide
567 new cases and you get: 567 new positive cases of COVID-19 in Tenn. on Tuesday
123 new cases and you get: Coronavirus update: 123 new cases in Yakima County as total reaches 6,062
PREPARATION
The Saints of the Apocalypse fervently sing: “With Your Blood You have purchased for God peoples of all tribes, races and nations; You have made of them a priestly dynasty that serves God and reigns over the earth” (Ap. 5:9)
We now unite ourselves to this celestial clamor, and in the communion of the Holy Spirit with all the saints of the earth and, venerating that Divine Blood which has rescued us from the power of darkness and transported us to the kingdom of light, as the priestly people we are, we serve reverent worship to God. (Col. 1:13 and 20). MORE
What does he want us to do about it? Kill white people?
The Rev. Michael Pfleger: If immediate action isn’t taken to address systemic racism, poverty and “black folks being shot down and killed out here like dogs,” Pfleger said the last weekend in May will merely serve as a “coming attraction of what’s going to happen next.” MORE
Vol 13 Issue 25 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
June 20, 2020 ~ Our Lady on Saturday
1. What is the Holy Eucharist
2. Third Sunday after Pentecost
3. Saint Aloysius
4. Family and Marriage
5. Articles and notices
Dear Reader:
225-page manual
The Vatican urged Catholics on Thursday to disinvest from the armaments and fossil fuel industries and to closely monitor companies in sectors such as mining to check if they are damaging the environment. MORE BURDENSOME SINS for Novos Ordo Catholics to bear
Terry Rawther, a 30-year-old Muslim illustrator, is openly gay. That makes him a target of odium and ridicule in his homeland of Malaysia where homosexuality is widely seen as sinful. MORE
On inauguration night, Father Andrew Mahana exorcised the White House and presented a statue of Lady of Fatima kept there today.
Father Mahana was invited by President Trump’s inaugural committee to his inauguration to discuss with him shaping Middle East policy to benefit persecuted Christians. MORE
The coronavirus pandemic could wipe out roughly one quarter of the state’s restaurants, according to the Massachusetts Restaurant Association. The group predicts that about 3,600 of Massachusetts’s 16,000 restaurants will not survive the pandemic, based on reports from the state’s two major food suppliers. MORE