As more employers across the country are mandating that their workers be vaccinated against COVID-19, more employees are seeking an exemption to the requirement on religious grounds. In a new essay for Our Sunday Visitor, professor and lawyer Kenneth Craycraft responds to
Only 3% of Catholic churches in the United States are open and having Mass as they had before the pandemic, according to a new Pew Research Center report issued March 22.
The report, "Life in U.S. Religious Congregations Slowly Edges Back Toward Normal,"
Parishes in the Manila metropolitan area have been forced to cancel Holy week celebrations after government health authorities prohibited religious gatherings due to a spike in COVID-19 infections.
Church officials said they would be locked down beginning March 22 and would reopen for
OSV joins other Catholic media outlets to educate the faithful about COVID-19 vaccines
he Google News Initiative announced that it will fund a consortium of Catholic media companies, news agencies and scientists to provide reliable information about COVID-19 and the vaccines that have been developed to turn back the pandemic. Our Sunday Visitor is a
One year ago, many Catholic parishes were starting to close their doors, temporarily, at the start of the pandemic.
Now, some of them are opening their parking lots or church halls as venues for people in their local communities to receive COVID-19 vaccinations.
Hospitals
When the World Health Organization declared a global COVID-19 pandemic March 11, 2020, the world shuddered, then shuttered.
"Pivot" became the word of the hour as much of everyday life had to adjust to a different way of doing things. Education was just
U.S. life has "dramatically changed" due to the yearlong pandemic, and alongside it, racial injustices and political divisions have shaken the nation, yet there is "comfort in God's promise," the U.S. bishops' Administrative Committee said in a March 9 pastoral message.
There also
When Jason Shanks entered his Fort Wayne, Indiana, home in mid-February, it was the first time he’d been there since an ambulance had taken him away three months earlier. In early November, when cases of COVID-19 were rising nationwide, one of Jason’s
In a new video, the chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Doctrine reiterated that use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine "can be used in good moral conscience."
"There's no moral need to turn down a vaccine, including the Johnson &
Use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, approved Feb. 27 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, raises moral concerns because it was "was developed, tested and is produced with abortion-derived cell lines," the chairmen of two U.S. bishops' committees said
While some parishes across the country have fared well throughout the coronavirus pandemic, others have had to furlough staff, lay off employees and cut back on ministries because of sharp declines in weekend collections amid a year where public Masses were cancelled