No act of charity: A personal reflection on the Vatican’s promotion of COVID-19 vaccination.
If the New Commandment given by Jesus to all believers were a 'looking glass,' what would we see gazing backwards in time upon the Church, towards the visible onset of the pandemic in early 2020?
The Masked Pied Piper
It was early one March, the beginnings of a most beautiful spring,
In my home village square so fair,
A strange and fearful sight for many did appear.
A “masked pied piper” I swear, with very baggy strange underwear,
Swinging legs, a pair of trotters for his dancing feet, Playing a tune so hauntingly yet fearfully and hypnotically sweet, And he sang: “Mask up, mask up, keep a distance from your own kin.” The melody rang, filling villagers with much chagrin. And like sheep to slaughter, they followed his hypnotic lead; Lost in fearful frenzy, they failed to take heed. As the masked pied piper played on, his tune became such an awful oppressive noisy din, And he growled: “Take the …More