Dr. Thomas McGovern, a Catholic surgeon, radio host, former infectious disease researcher and member of the Thomistic Institute’s COVID-19 working group, writes that as the holidays approach, the pandemic is getting worse. As Catholics, he ...
Although COVID-19 pandemic restrictions have shuttered public celebrations around the world, Catholics in Chile still should find meaningful ways to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the first Mass celebrated in the country, Pope Francis said. Despite ...
As we continue through the pandemic, what norms are priests asked to follow during the Mass? In his latest Pastoral Answers column, Monsignor Charles Pope explains that wearing a mask while dispensing a sacrament is ...
Kathryn Jean Lopez writes about the critical need for Mass, and for Mass to be celebrated with faithful attention by the priest. Lopez says, “We must pray for priests. We must support and encourage them. ...
Monsignor Charles Pope addresses the moral culpability of getting vaccines that are made from aborted fetal cells. He explains that while we are never free to directly cooperate in evil, we do however, often find ...
A parish priest in Bangor, Maine, said he saw many Mass-goers "in tears" as they took holy Communion for the first time in close to three months at a publicly celebrated Mass June 7, Trinity ...
Health officials in the city of Madison and in Dane County June 5 lifted a 50-person cap instituted for houses of worship, a limitation that Madison Bishop Donald J. Hying earlier called unjust and said ...
In this issue of Taking Note, Kathryn Jean Lopez writes about returning to Mass after the lockdown. She says it’s her unworthiness and her complete weakness without God that has been unmistakable during this time ...
As Catholics return to Mass, many people will have different experiences. Some will be overwhelmed by emotions as they rejoin their community of faith and receive Our Lord in the Eucharist for the first time. ...
In a report for Our Sunday Visitor, Doctor Thomas McGovern, a board member of the Catholic Medical Association and a member of the Thomistic Institute Working Group on Infectious Disease Protocols for Sacraments & Pastoral ...
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