Coronavirus health restrictions created profound obstacles for the communal relationships and interplay of everyday life at L’Arche communities.
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Posted inArts & Culture, Jesuitical
What comedians and Catholics have in common: They need to tell the truth.
2020 has been an absolutely awful year (no citation needed). But is it O.K. for us to take a step back and laugh at it all?
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Have yourself a social-distanced Christmas
This is not the year—or the Christmas—we wanted. But God is still with us, and we can still reach out to our neighbors.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
So you’re about to watch a livestream Mass with a toddler
I commend you. I sympathize. I need your advice.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The streaming era ruined our free time. Is it too late to reclaim it?
The pandemic has us spending more hours than ever in front of video screens, but Conor Kelly writes that TV steals time we could use to better understand ourselves, our loved ones and God.
Posted inFaith, Of Many Things
Americans equate beauty with youth. That’s no way to build a country.
In this country, we value youth but we don’t value beauty, mainly because we think they are the same thing. But beauty is related to memory in a way youth cannot be.
Posted inFaith, Video
Why all Catholics should get a Covid-19 vaccine | Behind the Story
As the Covid-19 vaccine becomes available in the United States and other countries, some Catholics have challenged the moral legitimacy of these vaccines. Dr. Moira McQueen, executive director of the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute, explains why the vaccines do not pose a moral dilemma for Catholics and why Catholics (and all people) should get vaccinated.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
The Top 7 Pope Francis Stories of 2020
As he enters his 84th year, Pope Francis continues to be an important source of hope and encouragement for countless people in a world where these are in short supply.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: Can Pope Francis safely visit Iraq?
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle and Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell talk about how the Vatican is weighing the pastoral needs of Iraq’s embattled Christian community and the health and safety concerns for Pope Francis and for the crowds who want to see him.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Should Pope Francis get the Covid vaccine first—or last?
Where should a pope who has embodied “the first shall be last” stand in line?