The Pastoral da Pessoa Idosa (“Pastoral Care for Elderly Persons”) reaches 170,000 seniors all over Brazil. The efforts and interventions of the ministry’s workers are built around monthly home visits.
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Rich countries could prevent the next India. Will they?
The speed and virulence of the Covid-19 outbreak in India have been among its most shocking aspects. Could an outbreak as ferocious happen somewhere else?
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‘If the rich hoard the vaccine, the pandemic will drag on’: Catholic health advocates urge the U.S. to take the lead on global distribution
“We will never get [the pandemic] under control here in the United States until we get it under control everywhere,” C.R.S.’s Sean Callahan said.
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The Vatican’s Statistical Yearbook has a list for (almost) everything you need to know about the Catholic Church
The countries in the world with the most people baptized Catholics continue to be, in order: Brazil, Mexico, the Philippines, the United States and Italy.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Parents who send their kids across the border are not heroes or villains. They’re humans facing an impossible choice.
Many migrants and asylum seekers are parents doing their best to make difficult decisions, writes Joanna Williams, executive director of the Kino Border Initiative. That recognition should guide our border policies.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis overjoyed at receiving over 100,000 video messages of support from Argentinians
Pope Francis said today that he was deeply moved and encouraged at having received more than 100,000 small video messages of thanks and support on the eighth anniversary of his election as pope.
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Delays, corruption and misinformation thwart Covid-19 vaccination efforts across Amazon region
Covid-19 immunization campaigns must overcome enormous difficulties in reaching remote indigenous groups, isolated riverside communities and the villages of quilombola people, the descendants of African slaves.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Pope Francis and the dehumanizing nature of contemporary economies
Two recent books by Benjamin McKean and Vincent Bevins show the violence done to developing countries in the name of economic prosperity and U.S. political hegemony.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Lessons from a year of online liturgy at a Jesuit parish in Belize
Experimenting with virtual liturgies need not be a cause for despair but instead an invitation from the Lord to try something new.
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A church survey reveals how mothers in Brazil are struggling to care for newborns in prison.
The Brazilian Constitution secures the right of women who are incarcerated to breastfeed their babies for six months. The law also allows them to serve their time at home. The decision is left to a judge.