177: Banned From the Sacraments—Philip Lawler

🔴Ready to join THE culture-restoring community for a falling-apart world? Check out Coffin Nation and join the movement: Coffin Nation 🔴 Support this show: Donate here 🔴 Twitter   Phil Lawler has the long view of things. A professional journalist and editor for over 30 years, he has a broad sense of perspective. The CCP virus lockdown has introduced a serious threat to Catholic life insofar as the Council of Trent defined that the Sacraments are necessary for salvation, and that canon law (c 213 and elsewhere). While Baptists ministers are getting arrested and fined (and refusing to pay), and they don’t have the Real Presence and no eucharistic Lord to adore, how come the bishops as a whole seem adamant in backing the secular refusal to see religious services as essential? Why are creative workarounds—which respect medical distancing protocols—of no apparent interest to our bishops?   🔴Read rest of the show notes at Patrick Coffin Media