As we face the challenge of Covid-19, our obligations to the citizens of our own country must not negate our duties to global humanity. Active support for the poor and the displaced will be essential in longer-term efforts for a more just, more inclusive and healthier post-crisis world.
Coronavirus
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A soon-to-be Catholic’s coronavirus purgatory
I was supposed to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil this year. But, like catechumens across the country, my journey was put on hold by the pandemic.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Vatican faces difficult budget choices as coronavirus pandemic crushes revenue
The Holy See, the central government of the Catholic Church, is in crisis mode as it struggles to find ways to balance its budget in these turbulent times.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Dr. Anthony Fauci to Jesuit grads: ‘Now is the time for us to care selflessly about one another’
A 1958 graduate of Regis High School in New York and a 1962 graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA, Dr. Fauci encouraged graduating seniors at Jesuit high schools around the country to “be smart, strong and resilient.”
Posted inDispatches, Faith
A look at the lives of priests and women religious lost to the coronavirus
Among the more than 80,000 Americans and 5,000 Canadians who have died from Covid-19 are many Catholic priests, sisters and brothers.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
In New York City, more than 100 coronavirus deaths between two Hispanic churches
The death toll has neared 40 among the roughly 400 congregants who join Spanish-language services at Saint Peter’s Church, a Lutheran congregation, in midtown Manhattan.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis praises nurses for heroics during coronavirus pandemic
Pope Francis also called on world leaders “to invest in health care as the primary common good.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Poems for a Pandemic
Poetry is an attempt to say the unsayable, to capture what ultimately eludes.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
German bishops reject COVID-19 ‘conspiracy theories’ by prominent clergy
Conspiracy theories regarding coronavirus being espoused by prominent clergymen like Cardinal Gerhard Muller and Archbishop Carlo Vigano have been rejected not only by fellow bishops but by lay Catholics as well.
Posted inFaith, News
At morning Mass, Pope Francis offers prayers for unemployed
As countries continue to reel from the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, Pope Francis offered prayers for the men and women who have been unable to work.