Pope tells priests to go out and meet the coronavirus sick

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Exactly, a priest can wear a containment suit just as easily as a doctor can. Anyone who needs last rites in particular should still be visited.
 
I think it’s prudent to remember that we may not have the luxury of a priest giving us last rites.
 
Right. Just head out to your local Wal-mart and get a bio-hazard containment suit on sale this week only. :roll_eyes:

And meanwhile, the Pope is doing live-streaming to the crowds below in St. Peter’s square.
 
The Pope is 80+ years old, getting over a cold, and tends to get grabbed by people. He could die if someone gives him even a normal flu. I’m sure a 30-year-old priest in good health who ministers to contagious people on a regular basis isn’t going to stop for this.
 
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ricmat said:
Right. Just head out to your local Wal-mart and get a bio-hazard containment suit on sale this week only. :roll_eyes:

And meanwhile, the Pope is doing live-streaming to the crowds below in St. Peter’s square.
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He put his life on the line on several occasions as a young man in order to help people in situations much more dangerous than the coronavirus.
 
The Italian statistics are very sobering. 9000 sick and 463 dead. God bless the medical people as well, who have to deal with this.
 
When everyone else is afraid to come into contact with these people, we shouldn’t pray for our priests to be anything but heroes. If someone is dying, they shouldn’t have to die alone. A priest is just as important in times of loss of life as he is its creation.
 
There is an alarming new development in this now declared pandemic. In one cluster in USA,people are showing symptoms, then dying within hours.

In Australia this virus is in teenagers and the young.
 
OurLadyofSorrows said:
There is an alarming new development in this now declared pandemic. In one cluster in USA,people are showing symptoms, then dying within hours.

In Australia this virus is in teenagers and the young.
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Do you have links to any articles? I’ve only heard what my governor has been putting out.
 
For which topic that I mentioned🙂 I read a lot of different global news services
 
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Pope Francis urged Catholic priests on Tuesday to “have the courage” to go out and help those sickened by the coronavirus, hours after Italy was placed on a nationwide lockdown.
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It sad that they would need the Pope to tell them to do that, they should be doing it already, with or without the Pope telling them too. Doctors and nurses face those who are sick every day, they do what is necessary to keep themselves safe as they minister to the sick… our priest should have no fear to do the same.
 
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It sad that they would need the Pope to tell them to do that, they should be doing it already, with or without the Pope telling them too.
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I think Pope Francis was probably reacting to public service announcements discouraging people from having contact with infected people. Not chastising Priests.
 

In Washington State, the nursing home that has faced the brunt of the coronavirus outbreak thus far in the United States said on Sunday that it had seen some residents go from no symptoms to death in just a matter of a few hours.

Tim Killian, a spokesman for the nursing home, Life Care Center of Kirkland, said its medical staff had found the coronavirus to be troubling, volatile and unpredictable.

“It was surprising and shocking to us that we have seen that level of escalation from symptoms to death,” Mr. Killian said. He said the center was still in triage mode as it worked to get a handle on the issue for its remaining 55 residents.
 
OurLadyofSorrows said:
this virus is in teenagers and the young.
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Totally agree with your statement, as a well educated health professional from JAPAN stated;

“to stop our older generations dying from this virus we must stop the young from getting infected”
 
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