THE OLD JOKE, SO HACKNEYED I CAN BARELY MAKE MYSELF WRITE IT, IS THAT A SWEATER IS AN ARTICLE OF CLOTHING A CHILD WEARS WHEN ITS MOTHER GETS COLD, HAS BECOME OFFICIAL POLICY.

HOW MANY SUICIDES FROM BANKRUPTCY ARE EQUAL TO AN 85-YEAR-OLD EMPHYSEMA PATIENT SUCCUMBING TO CORONAVIRUS?

WHAT EXACT PRICE IS WORTH IT FOR TO SEMI-SORT-OF-KINDA SLOW THIS SOUPED-UP COLD VIRUS?

THERE’S NO POINT IN DEBATING HOSTILE, DISHONEST PEOPLE WHO CAN’T FIGURE OUT WHEN THEY’RE WRONG.

“URBI ET ORBI” BLESSING:  POPE OF THE UNIVERSALLY CANCELLED CHURCH OFFERS A FEW MISERABLE BLEAK TELEVISED EASTER CRUMBS TO HIS IMPRISONED VIRUSFLOCK

CANCELLED MASS FRANCISTRADS OF THE BLESSED VIRUS:  HEY BOSS!  WE NEED A VIDEO OF YOU DOING YOUR STAR WARS IMITATIONS ABOUT C212’S FRANK WALKER AND HOW HE LIES!  IT’D BE COMEDY GOLD, BOSS!  COMEDY GOLD!

PERSPECTIVE: NUMBER OF CORONAVIRUS DEATHS IN US THIS YEAR FINALLY PASSES NUMBER OF FLU DEATHS IN US LAST WEEK

“JUST AS WE NOW HAVE TO CONTEND WITH TSA SECURITY MEASURES AT OUR AIRPORTS, WHERE THE GOVERNMENT TELLS US IN SO MANY WAYS, “WE HATE YOU,” SO TOO DOES A NEW BUREAUCRACY WAIT IN THE WINGS TO EMERGE AND MAKE OUR LIVES A LIVING HELL.”

NO GOVERNMENT HAS THE AUTHORITY TO SHUT DOWN A NATION

DO NOT OBEY THESE IDIOTS!  KEEP YOUR BUSINESSES OPEN! YOUR SCHOOLS OPEN! YOUR FACTORIES OPEN! YOUR STORES OPEN! YOUR RESTAURANTS OPEN!

CORONALAND: AS A RESULT OF ONE BELT AND ONE ROAD, THERE ARE MORE THAN 300,000 CHINESE LIVING IN ITALY.

THE VATICAN SURRENDERS TO CHINA

FOR THE GOOD OF HUMANITY AND TO STOP THE SPREAD OF THE CORONAVIRUS, SKOJEC AND THE FRANCIS BISHOPS MUST STOP PUTTING ON THEIR TONGUES THAT DANGEROUS FOOD WHICH IS “POSSIBLY” CARRYING “PATHOGENS.”

A SAINT IS ONE WHO CAN STAND AT THE ETERNAL GATES AND SAY, “HELLO. I AM HOME.”

MASS-CANCELLED CATHOLIC, DO YOU NEED A 50 FOOT TALL NEON SIGN?

HEADLINES FROM THE TWILIGHT ZONE!

FRANCISENEMY, MATTEO SALVINI: MAKING ITALY PRAY AGAIN

NO BISHOP CAN ABROGATE OUR CANONICAL RIGHT TO THE SACRAMENTS

YOUNG, 7 FT PACHAMAMA-DUNKER TWEETS HE HAS WEAK LUNGS; GETS THOUSANDS OF WELL-WISHES FROM PEOPLE TRAPPED IN THEIR HOMES WITH SHUTTERED CATHOLIC CHURCHES, COLLAPSED BUSINESSES, RELATIVES DYING ALONE WITHOUT SACRAMENTS, AND OTHER FLUS.

THE U.S. BLESSEDVIRUS DEATH TOLL IS CURRENTLY 263.  WHAT IS THE TOLL IN OPPRESSION, RUINED BUSINESSES, DEPLETED SAVINGS, AND LOST SOULS?

TODAY’S HERESY: QUESTIONING THE RESPONSE TO THE CORONAVIRUS

MESSAGE TO PRISON CALIFORNIA WARDEN NEWSOM: THE PRISONERS AREN’T STAYING IN THEIR CELLS AS YOU COMMANDED

TWO BROOKLYN PRIEST TEST POSITIVE FOR THE BLESSED VIRUS

FERRARA:  WHY THE OUTRIGHT SUPPRESSION OF MASSES, AND THE CONSEQUENT TOTAL DEPRIVATION OF HOLY COMMUNION, WHEN THERE HAS BEEN NO DEPRIVATION OF PIZZA, GROCERIES OR MCDONALD’S HAMBURGERS ANYWHERE?

A POOR MAD WOMAN SCREAMETH AT HER HAIRBRUSH IN THE DAY OF THE BLESSED VIRUS

SOME THINGS ARE WORSE THAN DEATH. THE ROMAN MARTYRS KNEW IT. THE RECUSANTS OF ELIZABETH I’S ENGLAND KNEW IT. THE RUSSIAN DISSIDENTS KNEW IT. OUR OWN FOREFATHERS KNEW IT. BUT SOMEHOW IN 2020, TO OUR SHAME, WE’VE FORGOTTEN.

TEN THOUSAND USEFUL IDIOT SKOJEC-GORDON BLOWHARD EXCUSES WHY IT’S GREAT THAT ANTI-CATHOLIC FRANCIS CANCELLED MASS AND THE SACRAMENTS ALL OVER THE PLANET FOR OUR OWN STUNTVIRUS GOOD

CLOUDING THE ISSUE OF DUBIOUS PAPAL VALIDITY, THE REMNANT’S MATT BLAMES ANTI-CATHOLIC FRANCIS ON THE 20^TH CENTURY CHURCH [35:00] AGAIN.

NO MASS MEANS NO EVIL SECOND COLLECTION

SPANISH BISHOP JUAN ANTONIO REIG PLA: “THERE IS NO NEED TO DENY THE BREAD FROM HEAVEN TO THOSE WHO ARE ABLE TO ATTEND MASS AND DESIRE GOD’S COMFORT.”

GERMAN BORN PERU BISHOP RETRACTS ON “PHONE CONFESSION” FRANCISPLANS

FRANCISCHURCH: LIVESTREAMING THE TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS SINCE ATTENDING ONE IS ALMOST COMPLETELY ILLEGAL

IF POLICE STATE CHINA IS ‘OBVIOUSLY LYING’ ABOUT A COMPLETE END TO THE CORONAVIRUS, THEN WHY SHOULD WE BELIEVE DIRE REPORTS FROM THEIR HEAVY TRADING PARTNER; LOCKED-DOWN, PRO-DEATH, SOCIALIST, FRANCIS-HAPPY ITALY?

CD. ZEN REPEATS: PAROLIN IS MANIPULATING THE FRANCIS. “ARE WE GOING TOWARDS THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH IN CHINA?” ZEN ASKED. “WHAT KIND OF UNITY? WHICH KIND OF CHURCH?”

Geniuses often are thought to be absent-minded. Archimedes was so preoccupied with a mathematical diagram he was constructing during the invasion of Syracuse in Sicily in 212 BC, that he told a Roman soldier about to slay him: “Let me finish my numbers.” He was not professorially absent-minded, but present-minded. His obligation to truth took precedence over life itself.

In our exceptional times, the President has declared a national emergency. This is not unprecedented, and I have an oral tradition of my own family witnessing to the influenza epidemic of 1918, when my grandparents’ venerable parish rector survived the infection while ministering to the ill, but whose two daughters died. The causalities were much higher than now, with a much smaller global population.

We pray for our leaders, and the scientists enlisted to mitigate the spread of infection. We also deplore those who would exploit this crisis for political gain. Our Lord had the greatest contempt for demagogues. It is thankworthy that months ago, our government prudently imposed barriers on immigration from China, in spite of criticism from politicians who faulted that policy for what they called “xenophobia.”

In any generation, crises provoke a reaction to the fact of human mortality. In their anxiety, those unwilling to acknowledge that tend to decry catastrophes as if they were intrusions into the obvious circumstance that life is a fragile gift. So they become paranoid about disease, demographics, climate change and other metaphors for the simple reality of impermanence.

Death is nothing new. Until now, everyone has done it. Our Lord would speak of it with a strange mixture of gravity and nonchalance. It is prelude to a permanent realm of which every anatomical breath is an intimation by virtue of its impermanence. Anxiety ignores the promise that accompanies the warning: “As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.”

Saint Charles Borromeo led a procession in prayer to mitigate the plague in Milan in 1576, caring for upwards of seventy thousand dying and starving people. Death meant nothing to him, save an opening to Paradise. For all his mystical intuitions, he also enjoyed playing billiards, and when asked what he would do if he had only fifteen minutes more to live, he responded, “Keep playing billiards.”

One of the Church’s youngest saints, Dominic Savio, told Saint John Bosco that if the Holy Angel blew his trumpet for the end of all things while he was on the playground, he would just keep on playing. That is how we should want to play each day of our lives, in a friendship with God that will not find Heaven unfamiliar. In 1857, fourteen-year-old Dominic’s last earthly words were: “Oh, what wonderful things I see!”

A saint is one who can stand at the eternal gates and say, “Hello. I am home.”

Faithfully yours in Christ,

Father George W. Rutler  3.21.20