Does the Church still have a place in times of an epidemic in the 21st century? Unlike in previous centuries, most medical care is now provided by the State and the health personnel. Modernity has its secularized heroes in white coats, and they are admirable. It no longer needs the charitable battalions of Christians to care for the sick and bury the dead. Has the Church become useless to society?
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Covid-19 takes Christians back to basics. Indeed, for a long time, the Church has entered into a distorted relationship with the world. Faced with a society that claimed not to need them, Christians, through pedagogy, tried to demonstrate that they could be useful to it. The Church has shown herself to be an educator, mother of the poor, "expert in humanity" according to the expression of Paul VI. She was right to do so. But gradually the Christians ended up forgetting the reason for this expertise. They ended up forgetting that if the Church can help
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