With the one-year anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic approaching, Catholic mom and blogger Bonnie Engstrom writes about the unexpected blessings that the pandemic brought to her family — namely, time together. “My ...
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 ...
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, saying it was “deeply concerned by the alarming levels of spread and severity.” Two days later, those of us in the United States ...
The Vatican threw its support behind an effort by India, South Africa and a host of developing nations to loosen international patent protections and speed up sub-licensing agreements for the production of COVID-19 vaccines, pharmaceuticals ...
The Vatican will sanction employees who refuse to get a vaccine, unless they have "proven health reasons" not to, according to a new Vatican decree. A variety of sanctions for anyone violating measures intended to slow ...
The Council of European Bishops' Conferences announced the launch of a prayer network during Lent to pray for the victims of COVID-19 and for the families of those who died of the coronavirus. The council, known ...
Since childhood, the typical U.S. Catholic's response to Lent is giving up, as in "What are you giving up for Lent?" If you haven't been keeping track, Catholics in the United States and worldwide -- just ...
In Sudan's Nuba Mountains and in neighboring South Sudan, mass vaccination against COVID-19 is so far off that it is not even mentioned, said a retired bishop responsible for remote hospitals that he has been ...
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 ...
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