The act is heartless, insensitive and inhuman — not so much in relation to the network’s management, or its 11,000 or so workers who will all lose their jobs, as in relation to the vast millions of Filipinos who will be deprived of the network’s basic services.
Pandemic or no, the Mass is the center of a Christian’s daily life. Following it online is not the same as participating in the actual Mass.
Defunding the WHO at this time, when it needs all the money it can get to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, may be a punishment in the extreme.
While scientists are frantically searching for a cure to the pandemic, the world is eager to see political leaders provide greater leadership in cushioning the impact of the crisis before and after it ends.
Amidst the mounting deaths and darkness caused by the corona virus pandemic comes a shaft of light from Australia on the final clearing of the unjustly persecuted Cardinal George Pell.
According to Pope Clement VI’s investigations, by 1351, 23,840,000 people had died of the plague in Catholic Europe—about 31 percent of its total population. From the episcopacy and clergy alone, 25 archbishops and 207 bishops had died, and many more clergymen. But there is no mention in Carroll’s narrative about the Church having to close its doors to any actual or potential victim of the plague seeking the grace and mercy of Christian salvation.