[Chainmail]

Really? That's your response to someone who recognizes that a disease is not mitigated by wishful thinking or telling someone to "be brave"?

We have a crisis in our church right now convincing young men to pursue a vocation and we are vastly short of priests. The priests in my parish are all well within the highest range of fatality for the Covid-19.

Do you seriously believe that forcing those remaining few priests to continue as though nothing can happen is conducive to "spiritual health"?

Those "brave soldiers we remembered today" were killed because they had no choice but to be on the front edge of the most dangerous places on earth for us. Our government considered those places sufficiently valuable for their lives to be expended and they were expended. I know, because I served in combat for 17 months and was very nearly expended myself.

Our priests are valuable and rare and should be protected during this deadly crisis. We have progressed a long ways from all of those ancients who thought that diseases were caused by evil vapors and could be overcome through positive thinking.

[MurphsLaw]

Man, stop digging......
Many, many brave soldiers who lost their lives in battle who we remember, did so because they chose to sacrifice themselves for God, country and family.... They believed in a larger, higher purpose than staying on the sidelines - and we'd probably be speaking German if they hadn't.
Read about St. Thomas More.....or any of the martyred saints..... That is this Catholic faith of sacrifice we could be called to.....if you believe in Christ's redemptive sacrifice you would see the contradiction of allowing God-less bureaucrats and culture convincing the Church that it's presence is optional in the times it is needed most.....it's appalling the Bishops saw, and still see no other move but '" to fold "....

39 Those who try to gain their own life will lose it; but those who lose their life for my sake will gain it.

[one guy in new jersey]

Why is it, do you think, that young men in the various dioceses and archdioceses with extremely high average ages of active Catholic priests are not seeking to become Catholic priests?

[ebb tide]

Yes, really. And if priests started acting like manly, virile priests we would have more vocations.