Weekly News Roundup 02/19/2021

This week the editors discuss:

A comparison of Trump's and Biden's Ash Wednesday messages--guess whose was more Catholic;

The Senate acquits Trump of the trumped up impeachment charge;

Joe Biden dismisses Communist China's genocide as cultural differences;

The Vatican seems to be mandating employees get the China virus vaccine or be fired;

Communist China issues new rules on appointing bishops that includes no role for the pope;

In New Rite parishes priests throw ashes but omit the sign of the cross in a new Vatican novelty on the pretext of COVID--more to come for Holy Week; and

Pope Francis claims God "contaminated himself."