The aftermath of the Aug. 4 bombing in Beirut have had devastating effects on the people and the economy of Lebanon.
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Here’s what the ‘America’ staff watched in quarantine. You should too.
When off-the-clock, chances are we’re enjoying a really good show.
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Profit over safety, especially in pandemic, ‘unjust,’ says Labor Day statement
The chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, has said that companies are using the excuse of the pandemic to take advantage of their workers.
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Mission work will be needed when churches reopen, cardinal says
Given the longevity of the pandemic, the church in Europe will have to deal with the urgency of keeping the faithful engaged in their faith, according to the archbishop of Luxembourg.
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Micronesia’s Jesuit school is reopening, despite spotty internet and a president stuck outside the country
Distance learning was deemed impossible due to inconsistent internet connections throughout Micronesia.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
In first public audience in six months, Pope Francis calls for a better post-pandemic world
Pope Francis concluded: “We do not come out from a crisis the same as before. We either come out better or worse. We must choose. Solidarity is the way to come out better.”
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Viruses of corruption and injustice are as destructive as COVID-19, Puerto Rican bishop says
The archbishop of San Juan, Puerto Rico has said that the people of that island are suffering from political corruption as well as the pandemic and the social injustice it engenders is also a “virus.”
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‘Traumatic way to say goodbye’: roadside funerals in Colombia
In Columbia, as elsewhere, how to conduct funerals for loved ones have been changed as a result of the pandemic.
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Louisiana priests provide hurricane relief to parishes in need
Priests in Louisiana are discovering that by helping those affected by Hurricane Laura, they are finding renewed purpose in their vocations.
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What happens when a pandemic grounds a globe-trotting pope?
During the virus crisis, Francis has become a 21st century “prisoner of the Vatican,” as one of his predecessors was once known, robbed of the crowds, foreign travel and visits to the peripheries that so defined and popularized his papacy.