All five bishops that signed that letter are cowards. They’ve exposed their soft underbelly just like that fake communist pope in Rome. The Catholic Church has become totally politicized. The Church claims that abortion is a mortal sin yet supports politicians such as Inslee and his wife who believe abortion is a sacrament and fund those abortions with our tax money. I was baptized a Roman Catholic at two months and stayed with the faith for 68 years. I’m totally done. I’m looking elsewhere to worship. Actually, I’ve been headed for the door for years but this is it. Just because the leadership in the Church is on a fast track to hell doesn’t mean I have to join them.
I’m 62, baptized Catholic and returned in my mid-30s after not practicing for a long time. I am fed up too, and looking for an Eastern Rite in my area. My father was Serbian Orthodox. Now I do go to a conservative, reverent parish where I live, but I still can’t believe how easily the catholic church cowed to the ban. There is fodder for a thousand books and articles on churches’ acquiescence to the lockdown. A historical and probably heretical response for sure. A few billion fewer Holy Communions worldwide had to leave a spiritual scar.
During the Arian heresy, only four or five bishops in the world remained faithful, and the Church bounced back. It’s not worth sweating over a few Judases.