In an effort to reduce a budget deficit exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Vatican is cutting salaries for 6,000 higher-level employees.
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Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: Our long Lent is far from over—but signs of Easter are everywhere
Easter reminds the faithful of our obligation to maintain hope in the darkest of times.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Your Take
Your Take: Lessons from a year of pandemic and women in parish ministry
‘The availability of online church is a mixed blessing.’
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What the Irish Potato Famine and Covid-19 have in common: an unnecessarily high death toll
Victim-blaming and a worship of the free-market system made the Irish Famine much worse. The death toll from Covid-19 shows we have not fully learned from the past.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
‘Stop blaming Trump’: Immigration advocates call on Biden to address the border crisis
Some things have changed on the southern border, but a lot of things remain the same, according to Catholic humanitarian groups on the ground.
Posted inFaith, Interviews
Can Joe Biden work with the bishops? The White House director for faith partnerships thinks so.
Despite public tension between some bishops and Joe Biden, Melissa Rogers, director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, is confident the administration will be able to work closely with the bishops.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Sister Stephen changed my life in the fourth grade. Now, she’s in her 90s and teaching (in person) during a pandemic.
Mary Stephen Healey, R.D.C. has continued to lead and serve the students, faculty and families at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School in Elmsford, N.Y., even during a pandemic.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What I learned from saying Mass on Facebook Live for a year (from a La-Z-Boy chair)
We begin each Mass like the disciples, locked in our rooms, isolated and maybe afraid. Then out of nowhere Jesus appears in our midst and brings us together.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
‘It is not a sin to get a vaccine’: This Catholic bishop delivers clear and concise Covid messaging.
“The internet is awash in rogue priests, bishops and bloggers presenting incorrect moral teaching,” Bishop Joseph Tyson told America. He wants Catholics to know they should not have moral qualms about receiving any vaccine.
Posted inFaith, News
A new survey of young Catholics reports growing isolation, decreased religiosity and how adults can help
Springtide Research Institute has revealed that Catholics aged 13 to 25 are the loneliest generation on record and are increasingly having trouble putting trust in religious institutions.