Sister Sylvia Ndubuaku: “We are for women the society has rejected. We receive traumatized women with this illness and we perform free surgeries for them.”
Health Care
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
Podcast: The Catholics that ministered to those dying of AIDS in the face of fear
Michael J. O’Loughlin, national correspondent for America, joins Jesuitical to discuss his new book, Hidden Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Canadians are losing patience with the unvaccinated — and the Catholic Church is sending mixed signals
Canadians have embraced coronavirus vaccination in large numbers and are feeling a deepening exasperation with the unvaccinated.
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
Cynical about Christian mission trips? Monsignor Ramkissoon will change your mind.
Monsignor Gregory Ramkissoon founded Mustard Seed to serve the most vulnerable people on earth: abandoned children and adults in low-income countries with severe mental or physical disabilities.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How the Catholic Worker Movement inspired one couple to open their doors to people with AIDS
They were intent on responding with mercy to a crisis that at the time showed no signs of slowing.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Stop comparing vaccine mandates to the Holocaust.
Some opponents of vaccine and mask mandates claim that they are being treated like Jews in Nazi Germany. This appropriation of the Holocaust is wildly offensive and shuts down civil discussion.
Posted inInterviews, Politics & Society
‘We need to mandate the vaccine’: Sister Mary Haddad, head of Catholic Health Association, is ready for bold action
Mary Haddad, R.S.M., the C.E.O. and president of the Catholic Health Association, agrees that more must be done now to halt the advance of the Delta variant.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Catholic bishops must not turn vaccines into a culture war issue
A statement from Colorado’s bishops will likely contribute to vaccine misinformation among Catholics, Sam Sawyer, S.J., writes. And its individualistic and libertarian notion of conscience ignores our obligations to the most vulnerable.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Vaccine mandates are coming. Catholics have no moral reason to oppose them.
It is no sin to get any of the current Covid vaccines, and a “misinformed conscience” is not a legitimate reason to seek exemptions from a vaccine mandate.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Should we go back to masks at Mass? Some U.S. bishops say yes.
Bishops around the country are reassessing diocesan policies for mask wearing at Mass as the Delta variant propels a new spike in Covid-19 cases, particularly among the unvaccinated.