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Captain’s log: Day 53 of the 2020 spring COVID-19 quarantine. Forty-two states still have active stay-at-home orders. The run on cleaning supplies and toilet tissue continues. Schools are teaching through e-learning; youth ministries are conducting their outreach via Zoom, Instagram Live and Facebook Live; and families and friends are keeping up on their relationships by way of various apps. Social media for the win.
Bishop Burbidge issues guidelines for the faithful.
Well, I’m not in Poland.
As you may recall, last winter I told you I was leading a pilgrimage to celebrate St. John Paul II’s 100th birthday in Poland. I was really excited about it. I love him, and I couldn’t imagine a better way to celebrate his centenary than to visit his homeland, walk in his footsteps and bask in everything about his life.
Keany Produce, a family-owned company based in Maryland with distribution points in Richmond and Landover, Md., partnered with Good Shepherd Church in Alexandria and Catholic Charities St. Lucy Food project to raise almost $100,000 for local food pantries. br />
A mask making effort across the Arlington diocese garners hundreds of masks for organizations such as Catholic Charities, a free clinic, and the Catholic Herald staff also received a few.
Copies of the Catholic Herald are available in boxes outside metro stops in Falls Church, Clarendon, Courthouse, Pentagon City and Crystal City. Get the scoop on the latest news and updates across the diocese, and how local Catholics are responding amid the pandemic.
We live in such difficult times. For more than a century the world has not seen a global health crisis of this magnitude. So many are sick, and some don’t even know they are sick, many are in the hospital and so many have died — often alone, without family members to comfort them. The future is so uncertain. When, if ever, will things get back to normal or, as they say, “the new normal” — whatever that means.
Security. Safety. Safekeeping. The human craving for protection against harm is universal and reaches its anxiety-ridden peak in the face of an invasive threat like the coronavirus. Intensive media coverage heightens the sense of impending doom. Granting that, however, some responses to the desire for security strike me as attempts to exploit the public mood.
The following are capsule reviews from Catholic News Service of new and recent video releases available on DVD and/or Blu-ray — as well as for online viewing. Theatrical movies have a Catholic News Service classification and Motion Picture Association rating. These classifications refer only to the theatrical version of the films below, and do not take into account any extra content.
We say yes to God
In his book, “Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World,” Archbishop Charles J. Chaput cites a 2015 New York Times article by philosophy professor Justin McBrayer. His second-grade son had a homework assignment in which he had to decide whether a statement was opinion or fact, for example, “Copying homework assignments is wrong,” “Cursing in school is inappropriate behavior,” and “All men are created equal.”