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A sermon on COVID-19 and Climate Change NewsColony The following sermon was written for remote delivery on Sunday. I send it along in hopes of wider distribution. Friends, As you sit in your homes, watching your screens and homeschooling your kids and hoping you have enough provisions and praying that none of your friends and loved ones gets sick, I’ve been thinking about epidemics and what they mean for us human beings. To help me do that, I pulled off the shelf Nobel prize-winner Albert Camus’ “ The Plague .” It’s a novel about an epidemic that comes to Oran in the 1940s, when that Algerian coastal city was part of France. At a crucial moment, the learned Jesuit Father Paneloux delivers a sermon from the pulpit of the big cathedral. As sermons in hard times go, it’s pretty harsh. It begins: If today the plague is in your midst, that is because the hour has struck for taking thought. The just man need have no fear, but the evildoer has good cause to tremble. For plague is the...