On CNN show, cardinal prays for 500,000 COVID-19 deaths in U.S.
Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory speaks Feb. 22, 2021, during CNN s evening program remembering over 500,000 Americans who have died of COVID-19. (CNS screen capture/Andrew Biraj, Catholic Standard)
By Richard Szczepanowski • Catholic News Service • Posted February 23, 2021
WASHINGTON (CNS) During a Feb. 22 evening program on CNN, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory offered a prayer for those who have died from COVID-19 asking God to “grant enteral peace to all our sisters and brothers lost to this disease.”
“Let us now open our hearts to recall those who have died from the coronavirus,” Cardinal Gregory prayed. “Strengthen those families and friends who remain behind, to comfort one another and to wipe the tears from our eyes. May each one find peace and let the memory of our loved ones itself be a blessing.”
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The Hard Truth About Memorializing the Pandemic POLITICO 2/23/2021 By Jack Shafer © AP Photo/Alex Brandon Lights surround the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, placed as a memorial to Covid-19 victims, Jan. 19, 2021, in Washington.
The medical holocaust that is the Covid-19 pandemic 500,000 dead in the United States and 2.5 million worldwide hasn’t even hit our rearview mirror yet. But as acquired immunity and vaccinations take hold, as the death rate and hospitalizations taper, and as normality returns as a life option, what sort of cultural dent will the outbreak, which has so far claimed numbers equal to the total population of Atlanta, leave in the American psyche? Will we build special places in our palace of memories for our recollections of the plague? Write panoramic novels about disaster? Gather our children around campfires and tell them tales about the deadly struggle? Build monuments to the fallen?