You all will regret it if you do not click on this tweet. @YearoutWilliam i regret to inform you the church of england is ordaining vegetable people again https://twitter.com/i/status/1256727703480406017
Well the news came in from our Diocese of Mobile today. A whole list of do's and don'ts as we slowly get back to church. No communion on tongue. No more than ten people in church. Every third pew. Receive communion only by the Priest and outside the front door if the church, standing in line spaced. No drive up cars, and much more.
Reminds me of G K Chesterton who said: "When men stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing. They believe in anything."
https://www.kcmo.gov/city-hall/depa...covid-19-kcmo-information-and-response/reopen Are religious services, wedding, and funerals allowed? Yes, after May 6, in-person religious gatherings (including weddings and funerals) may resume, subject to the 10/10/10 rule (if held inside) or limited to 50 people outside, provided social distancing precautions are followed and event organizers maintain records of all attendees.
Los Angeles rattled by magnitude-3.3 earthquake The Los Angeles area was rattled by a magnitude-3.3 earthquake early Sunday morning. The quake was centered about one mile northwest of Chatsworth, a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. According to the USGS, the quake struck around 3:19 a.m. local time and had a depth of just over four miles. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage. Some area residents took to social media to say the temblor woke them in the middle of the night. "Woke me from a dead sleep. Lots of loud rattling," one person who lives near Chatsworth posted on Twitter. "I felt it also in Studio City," another person wrote. "It seemed like several earthquakes in quick succession." MAJOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FAULT LINE EYED AFTER STUDY SHOWS UNPRECEDENTED MOVEMENT The quake comes nearly two weeks after a magnitude-3.7 temblor shook Los Angeles on April 22. That quake came after a series of three earthquakes of 3.0 or higher in a 10-day period. Los Angeles sits on a number of fault lines and usually gets several small earthquakes each year. According to the Los Angeles Times, a three-year data sample shows that California and Nevada are hit with an average of 234 earthquakes that have magnitudes between 3.0 and 4.0 per year. California unveils earthquake warning system New system sends earthquake warnings through an app and the wireless system that issues Amber Alerts; insight from Richard Allen, director of the UC Berkeley Seismological Lab. Last summer, Southern California experienced its largest earthquake sequence in two decades, beginning July 4. A magnitude-6.4 quake rocked the Mojave Desert about 120 miles north of Los Angeles before a 7.1 rattler hit the next day, followed by more than 100,000 aftershocks. A study released in October from the California Institute of Technology and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory found that the Garlock Fault – which runs east to west for 185 miles from the San Andreas Fault to Death Valley started to move for the first time in 500 years after the series of quakes. California has the nation's first Earthquake Early Warning System. Ground sensors from across the state detect earthquakes before humans can feel them, giving people warnings seconds before the shaking starts. https://www.foxnews.com/us/los-angeles-rattled-by-magnitude-3-3-earthquake
Not sure if this was posted anywhere. God bless a Cardinal Sarah: Top Vatican cardinal dismisses 'take-out communion' as 'insane' ROSARIO, Argentina - As Catholic bishops across Europe and in the United States discuss reopening Mass to the faithful and ponder what to do about the distribution of communion, considered a “high risk of contagion” moment, Cardinal Robert Sarah of Ghana, head of the Vatican’s liturgical office, warned that the answer cannot be the “desecration of the Eucharist.” The cardinal said that “no one can be denied confession and communion,” so even if the faithful cannot attend Mass, if a priest is asked to give either they must oblige. In present days, the Italian bishops conference and the government of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte continued their negotiations after the recently announced “stage 2” of the quarantine, meaning a gradual easing of quarantine restrictions, though no date yet has been announced for the resumption of Mass. According to La Stampa, an Italian daily, one of the solutions being considered is a “take-out” communion, because the distribution of the Eucharist is considered to have a “high contagion risk.” This proposal would see hosts placed in plastic bags to be consecrated by the priests and left on shelves for people to take. “No, no, no,” Sarah told Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, an Italian conservative site, in an interview published Saturday. “It’s absolutely not possible, God deserves respect, you can’t put him in a bag. I don’t know who thought this absurdity, but if it is true that the deprivation of the Eucharist is certainly a suffering, one cannot negotiate how to receive communion. We receive communion in a dignified way, worthy of God who comes to us.” “The Eucharist must be treated with faith, we cannot treat it as a trivial object, we are not in the supermarket,” Sarah said. “It’s totally insane. ” When the reporter asked the prelate, who’s sometimes been seen as out of sync with Pope Francis, about the fact that this method is already being used in some churches in Germany, the prelate said that “unfortunately, many things are done in Germany that are not Catholic, but this doesn’t mean that we must imitate them.” Sarah then said that he’d recently heard a bishop say that in the future, there would be no more Eucharistic assemblies - the Mass with the Eucharist - but the Liturgy of the Word: “But this is Protestantism,” he said, without naming the prelate. The Guinean cardinal, who was appointed by Pope Francis as the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in 2014, also said that the Eucharist is not a “right or a duty” but a gift freely given by God that must be welcomed with “veneration and love.” Catholics believe in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist after the hosts are consecrated by the priest. According to Sarah, in the Eucharistic form God is a person, and “no one would welcome a person they love in a bag or in an unworthy way.” “The response to the privation of the Eucharist cannot be desecration,” he said. “This really is a matter of faith, if we believe it we cannot treat it unworthily.” Regarding Masses being streamed or on TV during the pandemic, Sarah said that Catholics cannot “get used to this” because “God is incarnated, he is flesh and blood, he is not a virtual reality.” Furthermore, he said, it’s misleading for priests, who should be looking at God during the Mass and not the camera, as if the liturgy was a “show.” https://cruxnow.com/covid-19/2020/05/top-vatican-cardinals-dismisses-take-away-communion-as-insane/
God Bless Cardinal Sarah for saying this. He has repeatedly tried to get Mass said ad orientem, only to get smacked down by PF. +
http://www.rfi.fr/en/wires/20200504-former-pope-benedict-complains-attempts-silence-him Former Pope Benedict complains of attempts to 'silence' him Traditionalist former Pope Benedict XVI accuses opponents of wanting to "silence" him while attacking gay marriage in vehement terms in a new authorised biography published Monday in Germany. The 93-year-old, whose original name is Joseph Ratzinger, claims in "Benedict XVI - A Life" that he has fallen victim to a "malignant distortion of reality" in reactions to his interventions in theological debates, according to passages published by German media and news agency DPA. "The spectacle of reactions coming from German theology is so misguided and ill-willed that I would prefer not to speak of it," he says. "I would rather not analyse the actual reasons why people want to silence my voice," Benedict added. The German branch of the Catholic Church has for years been led by clergy more disposed to reform than the stringent traditionalism associated with Ratzinger. In office from 2005-13, he has frequently been criticised for his attitudes to Islam or to social questions, and is accused of attempting to undermine the modernisation drive of his successor Pope Francis. Ratzinger attempts to counter such claims in the biography, saying his "personal friendship with Pope Francis has not only endured, but grown". In February, Benedict XVI was drawn into a Vatican intrigue when his private secretary was removed from Francis' entourage. Some observers had accused the former pope of back-seat driving when a book defending the hot topic of priestly celibacy appeared, bearing his name alongside that of arch-conservative Guinean cardinal Robert Sarah. After 48 hours of controversy, Benedict XVI asked that his name be removed from the book's cover, introduction and jointly signed conclusion. But he has not given up intervening in social debates, offering a fresh blast against gay marriage in the new biography. "A century ago, anyone would have thought it absurd to talk about homosexual marriage. Today those who oppose it are excommunicated from society," Benedict XVI says. "It's the same thing with abortion and creating human life in the laboratory," he believes, adding that it's "only natural" for people to "fear the spiritual power of the Antichrist".