The Pew Research Center found that 82 percent of Catholic adults said they were at least partially vaccinated as of August—including 86 percent of Latino Catholics and 79 percent of white Catholics.
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Jeannie Gaffigan hosts panel urging Catholics to get Covid-19 vaccines
The panel consisted of six Catholics from across the medical field and around the globe and they made appeals to a shared faith identity and to “pro-life” values.
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Priests navigate Catholics’ fears and consciences in vaccine exemption pleas
Priests navigate Catholics’ fears and hesitancies in vaccine exemption requests to balance love for neighbor and self with individual conscience.
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Father Greg Boyle’s Homeboy Industries transformed by $20-million gift from billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott
This is the first time Homeboy Industries has received this level of funding, enabling a new level of capacity to serve people who have been in prison and involved in gangs.
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Bishop McElroy instructs priests to decline Covid vaccine exemption requests
San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy has sent a letter saying there is no basis in Catholic teaching to offer a religious exemption for COVID-19 vaccinations.
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The Catholic Church opposes composting human remains — but it’s becoming legal in more states
Washington, Colorado and Oregon are now among the U.S. states that have legalized the process of converting human bodies into soil, a procedure the Catholic Church said fails to show “respect for the body of the deceased.”
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Cloistered nun and mother of 10 Ann Russell Miller dies at 92
San Francisco socialite Ann Russell Miller spent her early adult years chairing benefit galas, vacationing on yachts along the Mediterranean. But when her husband died, Miller took vows of silence and poverty to become Sister Mary Joseph.
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Catholic nuns working to address mental health needs? There’s an app for that.
An app developed by Catholic Extension helps sisters to address the spiritual and mental health needs of Latino immigrants in their neighborhoods.
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At Amanda Gorman’s Black Catholic LA parish, ‘it’s like everybody here is a freedom fighter’
This is the South Central Los Angeles church where 22-year-old Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, grew up singing in the youth choir, taking her sacraments and reciting her poetry.
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Poll: Latino Protestants are more conservative and supportive of Trump than Latino Catholics
Latino voters this election season were instrumental in helping flip the state of Arizona blue for the first time since 1996, but in Florida and Texas more Latinos than expected voted for President Donald Trump.