Were masses cancelled because of the Spanish Flu (or other epidemics)?

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I think you did your math wrong. 209 out of 13859 puts it at .015% that’s still a minimal number. Just my opinion
 
Also, your numbers you posted which were 209 out of 13859, would mean that half of the 13859 would 6,929 that’s a .5% death rate. So that means that In order for it to be 1.5% like you said then that number would be staggering. That’s means EVEN AT .9% th at means the numbers, based on what you said, would be at 12473 deaths. 1.5% would mean Almost ALL of the 13859 would be dead. That’s why I said that percentage didn’t make sense.
 
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It’s your math that’s off. 209 divided by 13859 equals .01508 which means 208 is 1.508% of 13859. By your math, 1.5% would mean 1.5 times the number of people infected would have to have died, which makes no sense.
 
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No bud, it’s simple math chief. I’m not off…
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Sorry you’re wrong. The formula for percentage is the ratio of deceased divided by total number of proven cases TIMES 100. Per Cent means per hundred.

Thus 209/13859 = 0.015 x 100 = 1.508%

You’re giving a simple ratio, not a percentage.

Look it up.
 
Cardinal Joseph Tobin of the diocese of Newark stated in a March 25 directive that “the Sacrament of Reconciliation is suspended until further notice with the exception of an extreme emergency.”

Bishop Ronald Fabbro of London, Ontario, Canada, stated in a March 17 directive that “all Confessions are cancelled, except in the case of danger of death.” He elaborated in a March 20 statement that “‘Drive-thru’ confessionals are simply not acceptable.”
 
From what Lifesite wrote about this bishop Rozanski, he had been letting the nurses anoint the patients in the hospital and the US bishops decided that was not okay, so Bishop Rozanski has to come up with some other plan. I agree he has not handled it in the best way. I also suspect some priests, especially if they are regular hospital chaplains and/or part of an order, might anoint people anyway if they’re allowed to go into the rooms.

Is there any bishop other than him or is he the only one?

The plenary indulgence is for a different purpose and basically covers people who have been good Catholics. It’s fairly serious for a bishop to suspend whatever last rites a dying person is able to receive (which includes communion if the person can consume it, confession if the person can sentiently respond, and anointing if the person is still alive or even remotely might be). I cannot find anything regarding whether the civil authority is somehow keeping priests out of patients’ hospital rooms which sounds to me like it might be the case. In any event if a person was dying before a priest’s eyes I suspect many if not most priests would anoint if at all possible, not stand there and say “Bishop said not to.”
 
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CSPaxChristi said:
As a traditionalist, your claim of double standards has no basis. We are not asking for the death of the vulnerable, but asking for a spiritual understanding of the current crisis. It is wicked and abominable for a bishop to prohibit last rites, and confession. Have we forgotten that the death we should all fear the most is the eternal death of hell and not the physical death of the body. Mortal sin is dangerous and leads people to hell. If a bishop prohibits confessions and last rites that bishop in my opinion has ceased to be bishop. He has forsaken his flock given up on the duties of his office. Let us not forget that priests are called to be victims.
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What about God in all this? He doesn’t just leave us if the sacraments are suspended. I reckon so much false doctrine is being peddled around this current situation that is damaging to young and new Catholics. It risks preventing . . . them from nurturing the inner disposition to co-operate with the grace . . . conferred . . . by the sacraments they have received.

And yes, there are double standards galore manifesting. The same lot who did nothing but criticise and insult those who wanted to find some way to get the sacraments to isolated people in the Amazon region. Never offer any empathy or ideas because well, those souls just aren’t worth the effort, are the very same crowd stamping their feet, entitled beyond belief because their souls deserve utmost attention regardless of the risks to any other worthless soul dying of corona virus. Get it together and find some charity in your soul. We know that God will judge us on how we loved after all. It needs to be knocked off its block this selfish entitled attitude. Nothing you can say to me will justify the duplicity.
 
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You are among the lucky people who have access to a good bishop and shepards, not all of us are as lucky like you. In some areas bishops are even prohibiting drive thru confessions.
 
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You are among the lucky people who have access to a good bishop and shepards, not all of us are as lucky like you. In some areas bishops are even prohibiting drive thru confessions.
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Having the sacraments is not a matter of “luck”. In less at risk communities, people are blessed with their presences, but we are blessed in other ways by the God who never leaves us even if access to the sacraments are suspended.
 
Here is also a Homily from the same FSSP priest about this topic.

It’s totally beautiful. I suggest everyone listen
 
Phil, thankyou so much for this link. I saw the homily was 21 plus minutes long and thought I’ll just listen to a couple of minutes. But I could not take my attention away from Fathers words. Providentially, no one in my locked down house wandered in or out of the dining room that whole time. What a blessed, holy Priest!

My recommendation to members here would be to set aside 22 minutes to listen to this homily without distraction. I was surprised to find when it finished that I had clasped my hands together as if praying.
 
Greetings in Christ,
I have heard that many Masses were canceled due to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. I have a great-great uncle who died at 18 due to the Spanish Flu. It is a very sad thing to have to cancel Mass but is is necessary sometimes.
 
We were told the other night by one of the people leading the Archdiocesan Rosary that during the Spanish Flu epidemic, there was one parish in Philadelphia diocese that prayed to former Bishop Neumann, who was at that time a Servant of God, to intercede and protect them from the flu. That parish was the only one in the diocese that had no deaths in its parish from the flu. All the other parishes did. Bishop Neumann is of course now St. John Neumann.
 
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The idea of minimizing deaths actually has been proven, 100 years ago regions that were more strict in a lockdown received fewer deaths than regions that didn’t initiate such action

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