Morning News Roundup - Friday of the Second Week of Lent - Feria Sexta infra Hebdomadam II in Quadragesima - March 13th, 2020

† Traditional Latin Mass Calendar - March 9th, 2020 to March 15th, 2020 - Ordo for the Week

• Archdiocese of Baltimore: Responding to coronavirus

• A Priest Life (Fr. Kevin Cusick) >> Archbishop Gregory has indicated Masses open to the public, in ALL archdiocesan parishes, missions, and campus ministries will not be celebrated starting this Saturday, March 14th until further notice.
• A Priest Life (Fr. Kevin Cusick) >> Vicar of Rome: Parish churches to remain open; “precautionary measures must take Faith into account”
• Arise! Let Us Be Going! (Fr. George David Byers) >> Coronavirus: NY.gov bans church without saying the word church
• Arise! Let Us Be Going! (Fr. George David Byers) >> Flowers for the Immaculate Conception (Meanwhile, edition)
• CatholicCulture.Org - Commentary (Dr. Jeff Mirus) >> The ITC: An enriched grasp of sacraments and their nullity
• CatholicCulture.Org - Liturgical Year >> Mar. 13 Friday of the Second Week of Lent, Weekday
• Catholic Exchange (Saints Editor) >> St. Roderick
• Catholic Exchange (Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D) >> Don’t Be Afraid to Share the Good News
• Catholic Exchange (Brian Kranick) >> Fatima, Baal, Mt. Carmel, & the Brown Scapular
• Catholic Journal (Michael Vacca) >> Contextualizing the Coronavirus
• Catholic Restoration (Joseph Pio) >> Plague in Rome
• Catholic Restoration (Joseph Pio) >> Meditations for Each Day of Lent by St. Thomas Aquinas – Friday After the Second Sunday
• Catholic Stand (Bob Kurland) >> Lent: Forty Days of “Giving Up” Or Forty Days Closer to God?*
• Catholic World Report - Blog (Fr. Charles Fox) >> “My peace I give to you”: Gaining peace of heart in a time of high anxiety
• Clutching My Rosary >> Friday of the Second Week of Lent
• CNA Daily News (CNA) >> Portland archdiocese will not cancel public Masses, after Oregon gov bans large gatherings    (Bravo, Archbishop Sample!)
• CNA Daily News (Hannah Brockhaus) >> Pope Francis prays for pastors: 'Drastic measures are not always good'
• CNA Daily News (Courtney Mares) >> Churches in Rome can reopen for private prayer
• Communio (Paul Zalonski) >> The Mystical Body of Christ
• Cosmos + Sun (Fr. Mark White) >> They Closed Mount Everest
• Crisis Magazine (Casey Chalk) >> America, the Northern Kingdom
• Crisis Magazine (Fr. Mario Alexis Portella) >> The Romans Have Taken the Lord (Again)
• Dappled Things (Roseanne T. Sullivan) >> Friday Links: March 13, 2020
• Dominicana  (Br. Paul Marich, O.P.) >> We Have No King But Jesus
• Fr. Kevin Estabrook >> 2nd Week of Lent 2020 - Friday - God brings good out of evil, even viral pandemics
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment  (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Linguistics: Is everything alright?
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ASK FATHER: I might be contagious. Would it be a sin to go to confession to an elderly priest?
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> LENTCAzT 2020: 17 – Friday in the 2nd Week of Lent: Envy contains an element of fear
• Gatestone Institute - Articles (Soeren Kern) >> Coronavirus: European Leaders Finally Acknowledge Scale of Crisis
• Integrated Catholic Life (Joannie Watson) >> Fear and Trust in a Time of COVID-19
• In the Light of the Law (Dr. Edward Peters) >> Thoughts on the obligation to attend Mass during times of pestilence
• LifeSiteNews (Paul Smeaton) >> Globalists hosted coronavirus pandemic simulation weeks before first instances of COVID-19
• LifeSiteNews (Dorothy Cummings McLean) >> Coronavirus mayhem: Churches closed, travel restricted, schools shuttered, sports suspended
• LifeSiteNews (Joseph Shaw) >> Why coronavirus is a punishment from God that should lead to repentance
• LifeSiteNews (Lt. Col. J.C. Brader) >> A retired US Marine’s advice for dealing with the coronavirus
• LifeSiteNews (Steven Mosher) >> Despite Communist Party’s efforts to shift the blame, Coronavirus pandemic is ‘Made in China’
• Musings of an Old Curmudgeon (Jovan-Marya Weismiller, T.O.Carm.) >> 14 March, The Roman Martyrology
• National Catholic Register Bloggers (Edward Pentin) >> Coronavirus Latest: Italy’s Bishops Call for All Churches to Be Closed
• OnePeterFive (Jonas Alšėnas) >> Female Lectors and the Parable of the Sower
• +Pseudoclasm+ >> Friday of the Second Week of Lent
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> "Meditations on Death" – Part 4 : A Lenten Series by Father Konrad zu Loewenstein
• SCUTUM ET LORICA (Aquae Regiae) >>  Prudence in a Panic
• The American Catholic (Donald R. McClarey) >> PopeWatch: Cardinal Pell
• The Catholic Thing (David Warren) >> Let’s Talk
• The Daily Signal (Victor Davis Hanson) >> The Great Coronavirus War Is Upon Us   (MUST READ!)
• The Imaginative Conservative (Patrick J. Buchanan) >> The Coronavirus, the New World Order, and America First
• The New Emangelization - Catholic Men’s Evangelization >> Catholic Men’s Lenten Gospel Pilgrimage – 2nd Week of Lent – Friday – Matt 21:33-43; 45-46