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.
Coronavirus
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Newsom urged to provide more funds to immigrants, workers during pandemic
The Callifornia Catholic Bishops Conference has urged Governor Gavin Newsom to increase aid to immigrants and low-wage residents in California while the pandemic is ongoing.
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U.S. Catholic entities granted small business aid
The funding is part of a $484 billion emergency relief measure developed in response to the economic fallout caused by the spread of COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Dioceses scramble to feed the poor at their door
The Archdiocese of San Francisco is offering $1,000 grants to each parish that commits to supporting the program with the funds to be used to purchase groceries.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
A prayer for first responders during the coronavirus pandemic
Loving God, in the midst of our world’s—your world’s—coronavirus crisis, we beg to bring before you the brave women and men who are closest to the sick and suffering.
Posted inJesuitical, Politics & Society
Podcast: What can we learn from West Africa’s Ebola response as we fight Covid-19?
A conversation with Jennifer Overton, the regional director for West Africa for Catholic Relief Services
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Catholic leaders to Trump: Coronavirus pandemic not an excuse to crack down on immigration
“We cannot let this moment of pandemic, which calls us all to unity as God’s children, become the occasion for further prejudice, exclusion and injustice.”
Posted inFaith, Short Take
What the first Christians can teach us about missing the sacraments and still growing in faith
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed a kind of American Catholic exceptionalism, writes Michael Bayer. In fact, other Catholics, now and throughout history, have not had regular physical access to the sacraments.
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East Jerusalem Catholic hospital gets coronavirus unit for Palestinians
The Vatican is providing ventilators and monetary assistance to the Palestinians in East Jerusalem and Gaza as they try to grapple with the pandemic.
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This was no ordinary ordination for transitional deacon during pandemic
The ordination of a transitional deacon in Kansas shows how even a pandemic can’t stop one of the church’s cherished rituals, even if it sets limits on participation by family and loved ones.