Conscience and the Sunday Obligation
When the pandemic hit the United States earlier this year, bishops across the country made the necessary but unprecedented decision to dispense the faithful from their traditional obligation to attend Mass every Sunday. Six months later, we are slowly beginning…
You are your Brother?s Keeper
Across the country, bishops are gradually beginning to allow public Masses again. This process will be slow-going, and the dioceses that are reopening have extended the dispensation of the faithful from their obligation to attend Sunday Mass. How public liturgies look…
Is this a divine punishment?
I think it?s completely natural for believers to look at this pandemic and the profound suffering it is causing and ask themselves ?why?? The Catechism calls the experience of suffering and evil a ?scandal? before going on to say, ?If…