Editorials

Healthcare facilities across the United States, and most especially here in the hard-hit New York-New Jersey Metropolitan area, have postponed elective surgeries in order to save personal protective equipment, such as masks and gloves for treating COVID-19 patients amid the effort to stem the ongoing pandemic.

As Catholics know, Lent is a time of penance, prayer and charity. Yet, no Lent in our lifetime has ever been as challenging as the Lent of 2020. Just a short time after Ash Wednesday, we were all relegated to our homes, working from there and taking care of children, whose schools have been closed indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic.

In Alabama, one of America’s most pro-life states, a state representative has introduced a bill in the state legislature that would require men of a certain age or state to have a vasectomy. The legislation is the brainchild of Democrat Rep. Rolanda Hollis. Her bill provides that a man must undergo a vasectomy “at his own expense” within one month of his 50th birthday or the birth of his third child, “whichever comes first.”

Bishop Serratelli made a pastoral visit to Our Lady of Consolation Parish (OLC) in Wayne Saturday, March 7, where he celebrated the 5 p.m. vigil Mass for the Second Sunday of Lent.

St. Patrick Parish in Chatham welcomed Bishop Serratelli during his pastoral visit March 8 where he celebrated Mass to mark the Second Sunday of Lent.