"I wish I'd said that."
Posted on 03/08/2020 5:14:20 PM PDT by marshmallow
Belley, France, Mar 4, 2020 / 04:37 pm (CNA).- People should be more concerned about the epidemic of fear than the coronavirus outbreak, Bishop Pascal Roland of Belley-Ars has said.
“More than the epidemic of coronavirus, we should fear the epidemic of fear! For my part, I refuse to yield to the collective panic and to subject myself to the principle of precaution that seems to be moving the civil institutions,” Bishop Roland wrote in a column at his diocesan website.
“So I don't intend to issue any specific instructions for my diocese. Are Christians going to stop gathering together for prayer? Will they give up going see and help their fellow man? Apart from measures of elementary prudence that everyone takes spontaneously to not contaminate others when you're sick, it's not advisable to add on more,” he said.
Many Churches around the world have issued precautionary guidelines for Masses, or cancelled public Masses entirely, because of the coronavirus outbreak which originated in China late last year.
The new strain of coronavirus causes a respiratory disease, COVID-19, and has a fatality rate of roughly 3%. There have been more than 93,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in 81 countries, and nearly 3,200 deaths. The vast majority of cases and deaths have been in China.
France has had 212 confirmed cases, and four deaths.
Bishop Roland pointed out that during the great plagues of the past, Christians joined together in common prayer, ministered to the sick, attended the dying, and buried the dead. They did not turn away from God or their neighbor.
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Amen!!!!
"I wish I'd said that."
”Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life?” - said Jesus, the man who touched and ate with lepers.
Absolutely. If there’s one thing that has upset me most about this flu, it’s the way the Church has abandoned the faithful and succumbed to the hysteria, even to the point of telling the faithful to fear and run away from their fellow man. I’m disgusted.
Trump being up for re-election is the biggest factor in the narrative bank it.
Absolutely. This is what is fueling the media. But the idiots don’t seem to realize that tanking the economy might possibly affect even them, because they are so blinded by their hatred of Trump. Hope they like being unemployed and having their lofts repossessed.
“But the idiots don’t seem to realize that tanking the economy might possibly affect even them, “
Oh they realize it, but a tanked economy hurting millions would worth it if it hurts Trump bank that too.
The Diocese of Rome is being a bit more cautious:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3822823/posts
**Bishop Roland pointed out that during the great plagues of the past, Christians joined together in common prayer, ministered to the sick, attended the dying, and buried the dead. They did not turn away from God or their neighbor.**
Amen, this is how Christians and Catholics should behave.
Amen!!!!!!!!!!
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