CNA Staff, Apr 22, 2020 / 09:37 am
In his column on Tuesday, Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles said that in God's providence, the pandemic is calling us to remember our need for God and to deepen our solidarity.
"The deepest questions raised by this pandemic are about God and his designs," the president of the US bishops' conference wrote April 21 at Angelus News. "Where is he and what is he saying to us in this moment - what is he saying to his Church, to the nations of the world, to each of us in our own personal circumstances?"
"I see God calling us, in a most dramatic way, to realize how much we need him, how we cannot live without him," he answered. "But I also see God calling us to a deeper sense of solidarity, to realize that we are responsible for one another, that we depend on one another and we have to take care of one another."
The archbishop recalled that in the early years of Christianity, amid epidemics, non-Christians "marveled at the charity and compassion of Christians" as they cared for the sick.