Category: Coronavirus pandemic

Catholic advocates keep calling for end to ‘shameful’ immigration rule

by bcadmin | Mar 26, 2022 | Biden Administration, Border Patrol, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Coronavirus pandemic, News, U.S.-Mexico border | 0 |

Two years after the implementation of a public health rule limiting who enters the U.S. at its borders, Catholic immigration advocates keep calling out the Biden administration for continuing it and they are demanding its demise.

Lent 3.0: Third Lent in pandemic offers chance for spiritual reset, healing

by bcadmin | Feb 18, 2022 | Coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, Lent, Lent 3.0, News, U.S. & World News | 0 |

Lent, the spiritual season of prayer and sacrifice, has an extra pull to it this year because once again — and now for the third time — it will be under the cloud of the coronavirus pandemic.

Italian bishop bans no-vax priests from distributing communion

by bcadmin | Jan 11, 2022 | Cei, Church in Europe, Church in Italy, Coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Italy, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vaccinations | 0 |

A bishop in the southern Italian region of Campania is making waves for his recent decision to ban priests, religions, and lay people who have not been vaccinated from distributing communion at Mass in a bid to curb Italy’s rising infection rate.

Pope decries politicization of COVID pandemic, vaccines

by bcadmin | Jan 10, 2022 | Coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vaccines, Vatican, Vatican diplomacy | 0 |

Pope Francis Monday called for equal access to anti-COVID vaccines and criticized division over the issue which he said is rooted in the politicization of the pandemic and the spread of misinformation.

Online pivot during pandemic benefits Catholic Mobilization Network

by bcadmin | Oct 11, 2021 | Catholic Mobilization Network, Coronavirus pandemic, Execution spree, Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy, News, U.S. & World News | 0 |

While many businesses and organizations were hamstrung by the near-immediate shutdown wrought last year by the coronavirus pandemic, the Catholic Mobilization Network flourished in ways like never before, according to its executive director, Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy.

Pew: Catholic homilies mention election, racism less than Protestant ones

by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2021 | Catholic homilies, Coronavirus pandemic, News, Pew, Pew Research Center, Protestant preachers, Racism, racism in America, U.S. & World News | 0 |

As news events made headlines across the United States for months last year — particularly the 2020 election, the coronavirus pandemic and racism in America — priests’ homilies did not mention these events nearly as much as did sermons by Protestant preachers, according to a report issued July 8 by the Pew Research Center.

In times of trouble, Church turns to prayer with Mary, theologian says

by bcadmin | Apr 30, 2021 | Coronavirus pandemic, Featured, Mariology, Mary, News, Pontifical Institute Marianum, Prayer, Prayer Marathon, U.S. & World News | 0 |

The global Catholic Church coming together to pray for an end to the coronavirus pandemic represents the hope and faith of the people of God and how they find solace and strength together with Mary, said a theological expert in Mariology.

Nations not working together seen as biggest failure of pandemic

by bcadmin | Apr 9, 2021 | Catholic Health Association, Coronavirus pandemic, COVAX, COVID-19 pandemic, Daughter of Charity, GHR Foundation, News, Sister Carol Keehan, U.S. & World News, Vatican COVID-19 Commission, World Health Organization | 0 |

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed how unprepared the world is — even wealthy, technologically advanced nations — to work together to stop an urgent crisis, Sister Carol Keehan said.

Risen Christ offers hope to people, Cardinal Gregory says at Easter Mass

by bcadmin | Apr 5, 2021 | Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Cardinal Gregory, Coronavirus pandemic, COVID-19 safety protocols, News, Risen Christ, U.S. & World News | 0 |

The risen Christ on Easter offers hope to people experiencing sorrows in their everyday lives and in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory said at an Easter Mass April 4 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

Iowa reaches out to dioceses on getting vaccines to underserved groups

by bcadmin | Apr 2, 2021 | Archdiocese of Dubuque, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Coronavirus, Coronavirus pandemic, covid, COVID-19, COVID-19 coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic, diocese of Davenport, Diocese of Des Moines, Diocese of Sioux City, Iowa, Iowa Catholic Conference, News, Pandemic, Vaccinations, Vaccines | 0 |

Getting vaccines to underserved populations in Iowa — immigrants, refugees, Hispanics, African Americans and other communities — needs to happen through their faith communities and other local groups they trust.

British bioethicist: Vaccine passports could lead to ‘unethical coercion’

by bcadmin | Mar 30, 2021 | Anscombe Bioethics Centre, bioethics, Boris Johnson, Catholic Church, Church in UK and Ireland, Coronavirus, Coronavirus pandemic, covid, COVID-19, COVID-19 coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic, Great Britain, lead, News, United Kingdom, Vaccinations, vaccine, Vaccines | 0 |

So-called “vaccine passports” could lead to an “unethical coercion” of citizens, according to the head of the UK’s leading Catholic bioethics center.

Easter church attendance likely to be far behind pre-pandemic levels

by bcadmin | Mar 22, 2021 | Coronavirus pandemic, Featured, Holy Week/Easter, News, Pew Research, Trump, U.S. & World News, World Health Organization | 0 |

The coronavirus pandemic, as declared last March by the World Health Organization, was not even two weeks old when then-President Donald Trump famously said he wanted to see “packed churches” on Easter. That didn’t happen.