Coronavirus Crisis Makes Curtail of Religious Freedom Justifiable — Temporarily

Both the scope and limits of religious freedom are hot topics for Catholics, and properly so in a world contending with the COVID-19 pandemic, in which the Holy Father and most of our bishops are accepting severe limits imposed by governments.

In the United States, the Catholic understanding of the common good requires us to accept and to participate in our current policies, much as Catholics have fought with distinction in our nation’s wars. But even legitimate public-health concerns do not exist in a vacuum. Effectively shutting down American society has its own devastating effects on the spiritual, social and economic common good. 

Full article at National Catholic Register.