The cardinal’s appearance on Fox News follows a weekend during which he praised the president on a conference call with Catholic leaders hosted by the White House.
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Michael J. O’Loughlin is national correspondent at America and author of Hidden Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear.
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Catholic parish life (as we knew it) is not coming back anytime soon.
Interviews with physicians, public health experts, priests and diocesan leaders all elicited at least one common refrain: Even when public Masses resume, parish life will not feel normal for a while.
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Overwhelmed by coronavirus, Catholic hospitals ask for more government assistance
“Some of our individual hospitals are experiencing losses upwards of $1 million to $2 million [per] day, while some of our health systems are reporting revenue losses in the range of $200-$600 million per month.”
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Catholic Charities: Nonprofits need more government aid to respond to coronavirus economic fallout
Catholic Charities leaders say that while the government relief package signed into law on March 27 by President Trump will help meet some of the initial need, much more action is needed for charities to be able to meet the expected demand.
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What it’s like to be a hospital chaplain during Covid-19
The roughly 2,500 Catholic hospital chaplains ministering in the United States are integrated into the medical teams at many hospitals, and they are responding to the chaos engendered by the coronavirus crisis in various ways.
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With Masses suspended, parishes face collection shortfalls and perilous finances
Online donations may not be enough to compensate for the lack of a weekly collection plate in U.S. dioceses, writes Michael J, O’Loughlin, and Catholic charitable organizations are also being affected.
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Facing the fear: How Covid-19 and H.I.V./AIDS responses compare
Medically, the afflictions are quite different, and AIDS in the early days appears to have been much deadlier than Covid-19 today. Socially, the stigma that affected early cases of H.I.V. and AIDS is largely absent today.
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Are Democrats religious? How the public views the candidates’ faith lives
The only Democratic candidate whom a majority of poll respondents viewed as very or somewhat religious is former Vice President Joe Biden, who appeared at public events on Ash Wednesday with ashes on his forehead.
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Internal report finds that L’Arche founder Jean Vanier engaged in decades of sexual misconduct
According to L’Arche USA, an investigation “reveals that Jean Vanier himself has been accused of manipulative sexual relationships and emotional abuse between 1970 and 2005.”
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Review: The complicated Catholicism of Joseph Caldwell
The challenges notwithstanding, Joseph Caldwell presents his life as a Catholic as a gift.