Covid-19

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
   • Introduction to Covid and the Catholic Church (receiptspodcast.com) – 10/24/23 – Catholic Vote
   • Part 1 | COVID and the Catholic Church – CatholicVote org – Part I of V – 10/17/23
   • Part 2 | COVID and the Catholic Church – CatholicVote org – 10/18/23
   • EPISODE 3: Catholic Schools and the Covid Crisis (receiptspodcast.com) – 11/3/23
8. Many Bishops pushed the faithful to get the abortion-tainted COVID-19 vaccines, going along with the tyrannical government.
   • Without the Right of Conscience, There Is No Common Good (crisismagazine.com)
   • Mark Mallet’s Open Letter to the Catholic Bishops
   • Why Churchmen Who Demand the Vaccine Are Literally ‘Tyrants.’ The Ultimate Resource | The Stream
   • The Fake Theology Behind Vaccine Mandates (Janet Smith – crisismagazine.com)
   • Archbishop Viganò: Priests and bishops who promoted ‘lethal’ COVID jabs must answer to God – Lifesitenews.com– 10/23/23
   • No Jab, No Jesus, No Sacraments, and No admittance to seminaries | The Vortex (churchmilitant.com)– 11/3/21
   • Viganò warns US bishops about COVID jab: The Great Reset wants ‘billions of chronically ill people’ – Lifesitenews.com (10/26/21)
     • The presence of graphene in the doses that have been administered, reported by numerous laboratories that have analyzed its content,^[23]suggests that the forced use of so-called vaccines – together with the systematic boycott of existing treatments of proven effectiveness^[24] – serves the purpose of contact-tracing all vaccinated human beings throughout the world, who will be or already are connected to the Internet of Things^{[25] [26]}. As proof that this information is not the fruit of the fantasies of some conspiracy theorist, you should know that the European Union has chosen two projects dedicated to technological innovation as the winners of a competition: “The Human Brain” and “Graphene.” These two projects will receive one billion euro each in funding over the next ten years.^[27]
   • REAL COVID CRISIS: Church Silent While Unvaxed Persecuted – Courageous Clergy – 1/10/22, 17 minutes
   • The Vaccine Mandates Are a Line in the Sand (crisismagazine.com) – 1/11/22 – Consider the examples of St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher and the events preceding their martyrdom in England in the early 1500s.
   • Catholic mother arrested for praying, protesting outside diocese’s COVID vaccine clinic: (lifesitenews.com)– 3/8/22
   • Vermont bishop dismisses parish priest for resisting COVID-19 mandates – lifesitenews.com– 3/9/22
   • COVID Amnesty for Bishops? – The Catholic Thing – 11/22/22
     • Nobody has taken responsibility for Catholics being:

1. • 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.