Ok. I can see you're somewhat aggrieved. To help me better understand your response could you be specific about what is the 'BS -hatred-and misinformation' in my post and I'll take a look those points and get back to you.
Also, you seem to be entertaining the idea that the Pope might have intentionally urged priests to visit COVID-19 patients. "I only hope it wasn't intentional" you wrote and I don't understand why you've written "There you go,I've just said it " as if it was something you shouldn't really be saying. I anticipated I might get some irate response(s) to my post, people don't like their religion being brought into question in any way which includes criticism of its actions or as we've seen re child abuse, lack of action. I'm talking about any denomination, by the way.
Another issue. When you say 'the more it goes on the worse it will get next time...what is the 'it' you're referring to. ? I understood you meant COVID-19 until you wrote..'next time.'
I'd also like to know from you why you claim that "That's pretty much why we have corvid unleashed " in relation to your first sentence. I don't see the connection.
Re Sacraments (of Penance ?) Doesn't that involves anointing first the head then the hand with oil or maybe just the dying person's confessions ? I defer to you on that one.
I appreciate the value the dying of your faith put on having their priest or a priest to carry out that ritual but unfortunately the extreme condition of patients caused by this virus negates that. The hospitals won't even let a family member attend, a spouse most likely, let alone a priest. I haven't read of anyone dying at home so the scenario is a hospital and to quote you again..'organising it properly' isn't an option so this policy renders your suggestion, that priests wear a hazmat suit, redundant but here's what Dr Ashish K Jha, Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute has to say on that matter. "The suits are about as effective as cocaine or garlic in the fight against coronavirus. It's fun but from a safety and hygiene point of view it's a little bit of a disaster"
However, all is not lost because the Vatican, in the form of the Apostolic Penitentiary, has looked at this situation regarding hospitals and ruled that.. quote..'In places hard hit by the virus a blanket absolution can be offered (it's covered by the 'times of grave need' exemption) It goes on to say that 'a priest or bishop, for example ,who is unable to enter a hospital should use the amplification of the voice so that the absolution may be heard". Have they thought that through ? I get an image of a priest/bishop standing outside a hospital shouting an absolution through a megaphone. I'll resist the temptation to put an appropriate emoji/emoticon as I feel you think that you been offended enough already. Having seen tv footage of patients in a Italian/Spanish hospitals I doubt they hear the medical staff let alone a voice from a megaphone outside the building. I checked exactly what an absolution is too. 'Formal release from guilt, obligation or punishment' and I have to say that it's widely accepted (not amongst Catholicks of course) that it uses guilt as a form of control but that's another issue for another day..or maybe not.
As I say at the top of my response, hopefully, you'll respond for the reason I outlined.
cheers matey!
..My wife is in her study close by and wants to know why I'm laughing so much. Now she's laughing too. See..you've unknowingly and unintentionally brought a ray of happiness into the gloom of self-isolation.
