Is This The Eve Of Destruction?
By GEORGE A. KENDALL I’m seeing a lot of discussion now in the faithful Catholic press, including The Wanderer, on whether the coronavirus is divine chastisement. In matters like this we can never be certain, but I cannot help sympathizing with those who argue that it is, if only because the disorder and destructiveness of our civilization so clearly cry out for chastisement. Besides, I am getting feeling that people get when a volcanic eruption or an earthquake is imminent, when rumblings in the earth or the odd behavior of the animals get your attention. There is one clarification I feel the need to make. When God chastises, He doesn’t generally do it by raining fire and brimstone on people,…Continue Reading