Is COVID-19 a Chastisement? Ask Mary

Is COVID-19 a Chastisement? Ask Mary: As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to afflict us with sickness, death, fear, deprivation, and diminishment of freedom, there are increasing, mostly cautious, speculations that this tribulation is a chastisement necessitated by the world’s rejection of God and rampant immorality, and so allowed, permissively willed, by a just God. Mary the Mother of God in eight …