American Bishops Dismal Response to COVID

American Bishops Dismal Response to COVID  (see Catholic Leadership Critique Rationale)

Below is a summary of what I have come to believe about the American Bishops and their dismal handling of the COVID so-called “pandemic”.

  1. The American Bishops buckled under political pressure and closed churches in most dioceses during Lent & Holy Week 2020; in many cases withheld sacramental confession and even baptism and last rites for several weeks.
  2. Cardinal Gerhard Müller Calls COVID-Related Sacrament Restrictions ‘Grave Sin’| National Catholic Register (ncregister.com) (12/2/21)
  3. Cupich Fires Catholic School Principal Over Mask Mandate – Complicit Clergy– 2/18/22
  4. Queen of Martyrs principal ousted by Cupich over mask compliance – Chicago Sun-Times (suntimes.com)– 2/16/22
  5. Bishops should’ve followed the example of St. Charles Borromeo in dealing with a pandemic (lifesitenews.com) – 6/9/22
    • Cardinal Burk: No Pope, Bishop or Priest has the authority to close the churches and deprive the faithful of the sacraments
  6. Another local Catholic priest draws national criticism, this time for anti-vaccine remarks | Baltimore Brew – 11/30/21
  7. Catholic Accountability Project
  8. Many Bishops pushed the faithful to get the abortion-tainted COVID-19 vaccines, going along with the tyrannical government.
      1. deprived of the last sacraments as they died;
      2. denied Mass for months on end;
      3. refused family weddings and funerals because of arbitrary attendance rules;
      4. offered invalid sacraments while bishops said medical personnel could do the actual anointing of a sick person while the priest stood behind the door praying;
      5. probably invalidating Confirmation by the use of Q-tips. (I would maintain longstanding sacramental theology holds that it is invalid).
      6. There has been no accounting.  Without accounting, we cannot even begin to talk about “amnesty” or pardon.