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; andPope Francis claims God "contaminated himself."