FRIDAY EDITION

Where Did All The Catholics Go? – Rod Dreher at The American Conservative
Covid-19 Was Here Last Year? – Robert Kurland, Ph.D., at The American Catholic
Live Perpetual Adoration Of The Blessed Sacrament – EWTN Poland
21st Century English Medieval Revival: Syon Abbey in Virginia – Shawn R. Tribe at Lit Arts Jrnl
Still Waiting for the McCarrick Report – Stephen P. White at The Catholic Thing
Doctor-Priest: Elderly Die in Nursing Homes While Hospital Beds Empty – Simon Caldwell at CH
More Questions about Fundraising Answered – Brice Sokolowski at CatholicFundraiser.net
Some Catholic Churches Offer Public Mass Again. . . – John Burger at Aleteia
BBC Documentary on Pontifical Scots College a Ratings Hit – Charles Collins at Crux
The Man Mistaken for a Gardener – David Torkington at Catholic Stand
Is Integralism Just Catholic Fascism? – Michael Brendan Dougherty at National Review
Why We Exist: Hawking vs. Aquinas – Meg McDonough at Clarifying Catholicism
Spiritual Adoption Re-Explained – Faith Kowitz at Ignitum Today
The Vatican Questionnaire, Can We View It In A Positive Way? – Fr. Allan J. McDonald at SoOrds
Closet CheckList Spotlight: Eyes On Sunglasses – Meghan Ashley Styling
Catholics Are Praying the Rosary Together with New Website “Map of Hope” – ChurchPOP
Is It Ethically Defensible for the Church to Suspend Public Masses? – Fr. Tho. J. White, O.P., at PD
A Much-Loved Tanzanian Religious, Sister Anastasia, Died of Covid-19 – Paul Samasumo at VN
Vatican Closes Enquiry of Missing Italian Teen, Emanuela Orlandi – Han. Brockhaus at CNA/CH
With Safety in Mind, Dioceses Look to Reopen Church Doors – Brian Fraga at Our Sunday Visitor
Garden Nursery Is Essential Business, Especially in Lockdown! – David Clayton at New Lit Mov
Polls: Young Adult Catholics Adding Prayer During Pandemic Isolation – Clemente Listi at RU
Italian Bishops Push Gov’t to Allow Resumption of Public Masses – Edward Pentin at NC Register
A Catholic Mom: May Is The Month Of Mary – From Rome

CHINESE CORONA VIRUS:
2 Secular NY’ers Visited Samaritan’s Purse Field Hospital; Volunteered, Arrested – M. Danney
Church Life Expected to Have Safe Practices when Public Masses Resume – D. Sadowski at CNS
Thomistic Institute Protocols Help Bring Back Sacraments During Pandemic – Pt. Jesserer Smith
St. Aloysius Gonzaga: A Patron for Times of Plague – Michael R. Heinlein at Simply Catholic

Other Link(s):
“Restore the ’54”: Bugnini & Braga’s Commentary on the ’55 Holy Week – Canticum Salomonis
Bibles Are Flying Off the Shelves as People Search for Hope amid Pandemic– Pravmir.com

THE SAMIZDAT HERALD:
Jeff Goldblum’s Legitimate Question about Islam – David Harsanyi at National Review
All Is Not What It Seems In Sweden
– Eva Johannissen at The American Conservative
Short of Another Great Awakening, U.S. May Split Up Or Worse
– Jn. Zmirak, Ph.D., at The Stream
The NY Times Used to Correct Its Whoppers, But Not These Two, Here’s Why
– Tom Kuntz at RCI
Calling BS on NC-17 – Douglas LeBlanc at Get Religion
Surviving Climate Change in 6th Century Finland – Medievalists.net
Bill de Blasio isn’t an Anti-Semite but. . .  . . .He is an Idio. . . – Dominic Green at Spectator|USA
Joe Biden’s Communist China Problem – Katie Pavlich at The Hill
We’re In A New Cold War, This Time With Communist China
– Kyle Sammin at The Federalist
Is Sweden Doing It Right? – Thomas L. Friedman at The New York Times
We Asked 48 Top Experts What Happens if Kim Jong-un Died? – Harry J. Kazianis at TNI
Bill Gates Defends Red China, Calls Blaming Red China a Distraction – Joseph Vazquez at NB
Joe Biden & the Social-Justice Charade – Noah Rothman at Commentary
Beauty & Desecration – Sir Roger Scruton, Ph.D., at The Imaginative Conservative
Huawei, 5G, & Human Rights Abuses: Yes, They Are Connected – Ruth Ingram at Bitter Winter
Foresight, Pragmatism Absent in Australia’s Relations with Red China – A Nicholas at The Intrprtr
USA Today “Factcheck” Falsely Claims Abortions Aren’t Legal Up to Birth – Micaiah Bilger at LN
WHO Lauds Lockdown-Ignoring Sweden as Model for Countries – Jackie Salo at New York Post