#280 – Coronavirus and church closures

The Counsel of Trent

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Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Trent is back from Australia with an update on how the coronavirus affected his travel. He then weighs in on the debate over whether churches should close in order to curb the spread of this pandemic.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.
0:10.2	I had a plan.
0:11.2	I was going to come back from Australia, enjoy some free time with my family, and you all
0:15.6	were going to enjoy a delightful pre-recorded interview about CS Lewis with my friend,
0:20.5	David Bates.
0:21.9	But unfortunately, a stupid little virus from Wuhan, China has to come over here and ruin
0:26.7	everything.
0:28.2	Maybe that's what you're thinking.
0:29.3	Maybe you had plans, things that you were hoping to do, or you wanted to just get through
0:34.0	life, through the normal course of events knowing that you could go to the store and get
0:37.9	toilet paper, and it was going to be there.
0:40.9	Maybe you had these plans too, and that stupid little virus came over here and went and
0:45.5	ruined everything.
0:46.5	So let's talk about it.
0:48.8	Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.
0:50.4	I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker Trent Horn.
0:54.0	So actually this is kind of part one of a two-part episode.
0:57.8	So in this episode, I want to talk about the coronavirus situation as a whole, and then
1:02.6	offer some principles from our faith for how we should respond to it.
1:06.2	And in particular, I want to talk about some attitudes that I've seen from Catholics
1:09.9	that are actually not very helpful, and some principles we should not endorse in the
1:14.9	face of this crisis that we're facing right now.
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