When health care chaplains talk about the need for self-care, they really mean it, especially after this past year. That's because they have been on call to provide emotional and spiritual support to patients, families and ...
President Joe Biden addressed the nation in a speech from the White House Feb. 22, the day the nation reached, and then passed, what he called the "truly grim, heartbreaking milestone" of 500,000 U.S. deaths ...
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Feb. 14 reestablishing the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships as a means to work with religious and secular organizations to help with COVID-19 and economic ...
No one needed to tell the Catholic college and university leaders, attending their annual conference virtually this year, that these different times are affecting their day-to-day operations and what they might do going forward. During the ...
Two California Catholic bishops applauded the Supreme Court's Feb. 5 ruling easing the state's restrictions on indoor worship put in place with the COVID-19 pandemic. "This is a very significant step forward for basic rights. This ...
Catholic school enrollment figures for the current school year -- significantly impacted by the pandemic -- dropped 6.4% or more than 111,000 students from the previous school year, which is the largest single year decline ...
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the nation's movement for racial reckoning, the Catholic Health Association of the United States announced an initiative to confront racism in the provision of health care. The initiative was ...
Ash Wednesday, as with many other things right now, will have a different look at many Catholic parishes across the United States this year. For starters, Catholic churches that are often standing-room only on this day ...
This past year as the coronavirus cut through the United States, elderly women religious -- former teachers, nurses, social workers and pastoral care leaders -- were among those whose lives were cut short by COVID-19, ...
Although the 2021 March for Life was far different from the previous 47 annual marches to protest the Supreme Court's decision legalizing abortion, organizers and rally speakers stressed that the smaller, and primarily virtual crowd, ...
