The COVID-19 situation in India has been worsening; India, with more than 4.3 million cases, is now second after the United States.
Death and Dying
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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.
Posted inArts & Culture, Music
What Lil Wayne’s latest album tells us about Black death in 2020
Lil Wayne pulls from this rich tradition of Black death celebration while dismissing the social conditions that forged it.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How can we grieve with funerals on hold?
The coronavirus pandemic has both increased the frequency of deaths and constrained our ability to accompany the dying.
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Priests are on front lines of COVID-19 as they minister to the sick, dying
A priest in Providence, Rhode Island, reflects on how ministering to patients ill with coronavirus has given him new perspective on faith and ministry.
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Only in death can we truly come home
Everything else, even their names, has been taken away from the dead, and they are reserving for their family a spot with the one thing we really need: a view of the mountain.
Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
Where can we find God during a modern-day plague?
In the 20th and 21st centuries, many theologians have been rethinking how we imagine God in the light of revelations of evolution and the revolutionary realizations of spacetime and quantum mechanics. It’s time for us to catch up.
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Life and death: Pandemic forces world to confront its greatest fear
Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, has said that the pandemic has forced everyone to face the greatest of all fears: the fear of death and dying.
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How the ascension of Christ made room for the church
In his ascension, Christ no longer limits himself in time and space. He is wherever and whenever his church seeks him in the Spirit.
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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.