Contagious Faith: Why the Church Must Spread Hope, Not Fear, in a Pandemic is Philip Lawler’s book reflecting on the year of our life with Covid. Lawler sets forth how best to live our lives as Catholics going forward from this pandemic. Lawler shares with EWTN Bookmark host Doug Keck that we lost access to the sacraments, as well as to other much less important things, from contagious fear. “Physically receiving the sacraments is essential,” Lawler states. As the Church
THIS WEEK'S BOOKMARK BRIEF | Philip F. Lawler, Contagious Faith Contagious Faith: Why the Church Must Spread Hope, Not Fear, in a Pandemic is Philip Lawler’s book reflecting on the year of our life with Covid. Lawler sets forth how best to live our lives as Catholics going forward from this pandemic. Lawler shares with EWTN Bookmark host Doug Keck that we lost access to the sacraments, as well as to other much less important things, from contagious fear. “Physically receiving the sacraments is essential,” Lawler states. As the Church...
| CONTAGIOUS FAITH Even by the most unrestrained estimates, the Covid pandemic never approached the lethality of the Spanish flu of 1918. Yet the effect that our fears, amplified by the mass media, had on society were infinitely more... | |