The Catholic Church during Coronavirus

During this whole Covid 19 and lockdown situation I have seen more veiled chalices, traditional latin Masses, Ordinary Form Masses celebrated Ad Orientem, Eucharistic processions and house blessings than ever before.  This is amazing when you lived through the 1970's and 1980's.  When I first was blogging (17 years ago!) I followed all the arguments and discussions on the Church and kept up with all of it.  Now, I can't keep up with it all and don't have any desire to but the Church on Long Island is looking a lot more traditional than in the past.  One of the best bloggers Amy Welborn at Charlotte Was Both puts it best in this post:  Pendulums.  It is well worth a read.

A Sample:

"There are countless angles to come at in examining the past few decades of Catholic history, but one that I emphasize frequently – because I see it neglected in other discussions of the time – is that a major focus of the changes in that period was the conviction that the Stuff of Faith, from buildings to ritual, to objects of devotion, to devotional practices themselves, were not actually helps to authentic faith, but obstacles. "