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."