A couple of interesting news items.
It would be apparently to any long time reader of this blog, if there are any, that it hasn't been the same for over a year. Indeed, it dramatically changed course, sort of, when COVID 19 hit. That event pretty much changed everything, globally, and rather obviously, with one of those changes being that business travelers quit traveling.
I frankly don't think that business travel is coming back. Video conferencing was coming in anyway and the pandemic spurred it along. That's our new world now, even though we don't really have any idea, really, of what that new world is really going to be like. We already know that, at this late stage of the pandemic, with COVID relief funds still operating in a lot of places, people in certain economic categories are refusing to come back to work. This isn't just those making low wages, who are choosing to ride out the relief funds in hopes for hire wages. It also includes a lot of professionals who have learned how to work from home and don't want to go back to their offices. This is still paying out.
Anyhow, that means no new church photographs from afar. And frankly, this blog was slowing down anyhow as a lot of the places I traveled to, I repeated. There's more churches there, indeed there's more in town, but photographing targets of opportunity just don't exist like they did, although I should finish the ones in town.
Anyhow, as the number of church photographs have declined, those which are news items have seemed to increase, although that may not be fully accurate. Some probably have seemed to increase as they're getting posted where as church photographs aren't.
Anyhow, as also noted here before, this isn't a Catholic Apologists blog. There are plenty of those and I'm not qualified to be one. But I do comment on Christian news items from time to time and those are most often Catholic ones.
Catching my eye on Twitter yesterday was a comment by a priest to the effect that "everyone's an Apologist today". I hadn't seen any big news items that would inspire a comment like that and I couldn't find one on Twitter. Checking the news, I saw two, and these do turn out to be the inspiration for that comment. One was that Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister, married, and the other was that Pope Francis had issued a revision to the Church's Canon Law. Reading the news reports I at first didn't see any reason that these were really even all that noteworthy. But following up on it, they are, and they're interesting.
So, following this, there will be a couple of comments on those. Hope they're interesting.
