January 23rd, 2021
Just as President Tɾυmρ leaves office and Joe Bıdɛn takes his place, magically everything with CÖVÌD starts looking better. The W.H.O. puts out updated guidelines on the CÖVÌD tests (which ultimately will lead to less positive test results), Fauci says a degree of normalcy is around the corner, and democratic mayors start dropping their restrictions like flies.
Despite that...despite the claims by priests and bishops that they were "just following state guidelines" in suppressing the sacraments, understand that whatever is being loosed for religion is instead being bound by religious officials. The churches will open "after" the Second Coming at this rate. Catholic Church officials will find ever more excuses, apparently, for remaining shut. Today, in a city that has relaxed restrictions and reopened, I called about Confession schedules at a huge cathedral a half hour away, and was told there will be none and "we don't know when at all they will be scheduled again without appointment."
So no one should be fooled that priests and bishops actually respect and cultivate the Cardinal virtue of fortitude. Apparently that virtue was put on a special Council Index.
St. Thomas Aquinas calls this the sin of effeminacy.