Nigeria has seen an increase in the rates of tuberculosis and Hansen’s disease. Late diagnosis and lack of effective tools for prevention and treatment have contributed to the lack of an effective model to predict their spread
Health and Wellness
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 inNews, Politics & Society
Safety a priority as Vatican Museums eyes reopening, official says
Officials in Vatican City are cautiously preparing protocols for reopening various sites to the public so that people will be safe from the coronavirus.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How one graduating senior is choosing happiness over desolation in spite of coronavirus
The first in her family to attend college, a student reflects with her professor on her life of struggles and growth as she prepares to graduate from Loyola Marymount University.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I’m a Jesuit in formation. Here’s why I decided to take care of my mental health.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. To honor this month, I want to share why I’m so glad I sought help.
Posted inFaith, News
Sisters’ work during 1918 flu epidemic seen as model for crisis today
Throughout the United States, thousands of women religious took on nursing duties in hospitals or clinics and went into private homes to offer food, medicine, comfort and even housecleaning to families affected by the Spanish flu.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Gen-X women can’t ‘have it all’ after all
Generation X came of age in a culture awash in dreams of women’s perpetual and idealized childhood being sold as feminist empowerment.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The good and beautiful things I’ve seen amid the coronavirus pandemic
It is good to know that people are still people, still willing to visit each other, still willing to bring hope, still willing to share what they have.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
We must not allow the coronavirus to rob us of our humanity. How can we (safely) preserve it?
We cannot allow the coronavirus to make us see others as a threat.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How can we be the body of Christ when the coronavirus closes our churches?
In this time in which we are not able to encounter Christ in the assembly or the Eucharist, we always have the opportunity to encounter Christ in the vulnerable.