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18 Gulf Pine Catholic • March 20, 2020 Collection March 30 & 31 A small portion of collection pays for this advertisement. THANKSGIVING NOVENA TO ST. JUDE O Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful in- tercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make your name known and cause you to be invoked. St. Jude pray for us and all who invoke your aid. Amen. Say three Our Fathers, Hail Marys and Glorias. Pub- lication must be promised. This Novena has never been known to fail. I have had my request granted. Publication promised. LCL There will be a Married Couples Retreat (#22) spon- sored by the Cursillo Movement in the near future. The dates and the location and leaders will be announced shortly. For more information about the Cursillo Movement, contact us at: The Catholic Cursillo Movement of South Mississippi -- Biloxi Diocese. Mailing Address: P.O. Box 7450, D’Iberville, MS 39540. Phone: (228) 382- 3215. Email: secretariat@southms-cursillo.org or visit the Cursillo website at www.biloxicursillo.org or the Facebook group page https://www.facebook.com/ groups/143859282440170/ Cursillo From page 17 Catholic Relief Services donations can be mailed to the Catholic Diocese of Biloxi at 1790 Popps Ferry Road., Biloxi 39532 CDC Redfield Pandemic Faith From page 2 In 2011, Redfield worked with Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services in Haiti to help treat those injured by a devastating earthquake. With the University of Maryland, Redfield had also been active in Haiti to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS, mirroring his earlier work with the U.S. government in Africa. Blattner praised the CDC’s response to the coronavirus pandemic thus far, saying the decision to ban travel from China, where the virus originated, bought the country valuable time. “Dr. Redfield was on top of this. I mean, as soon as there was a sniff of something going on, they were on it in terms of what was going on over there. And then rap- idly started to develop strategies,” Blattner told the Catholic Review . He noted that the highly publicized problems with COVID-19 testing kits were an early setback, but he said the components are fairly sophisticated and viewed it as a short-term problem. However, Redfield is not without controversy; many public health advocates questioned his appointment to the CDC in 2018. Blattner attributed the opposition to politics. He said unlike many scientists, Redfield is staunchly opposed to abortion and favors abstinence over birth control mea- sures such as condoms to stop sexually transmitted infections such as HIV. “Whenever you’re a high-profile person and you have a strong face and you have strong political leanings that are pro-life and so on and so forth, you are going to come under attack,” Blattner said. Redfield joined other top health officials in pushing back against some misleading information from con- gressional Republicans and President Donald Trump. On March 11 during a hearing on Capitol Hill, he publicly disagreed with some members of Congress and media personalities who have attempted to label COVID- 19 as the “Chinese coronavirus.” He also said physical borders such as a wall on the border between the U.S. and Mexico would not stop the spread of the virus, which had been implied by Trump in a recent Tweet . Blattner, who also is a Catholic and is a parishioner of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine in Florida, said faith in God has grounded his and Redfield’s work “I think that humility is an important gift that we’re given. And when you’re dealing with this kind of situa- tion, having humility helps one to allow all of the gifted people to be able to be heard and to bring their expertise to the table,” Blattner said. Swift is the social media coordinator for the Catholic Review and the Archdiocese of Baltimore.