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
With public health officials warning that COVID-19 vaccination rollouts won't do much to tame the immediate dangers of the pandemic, a Florida Catholic hospital is looking at medications and protocols to protect and save lives.
The U.S. continues to lead the world in
Churches will ring bells at noon Dec. 30, during the octave of Christmas, to remember and honor the more than 336,000 people who have died in the United States from COVID-19.
These bells will ring in churches in the Boston and New York
With anti-COVID-19 vaccines now available and being given to health care workers and others across the country, Dr. Thomas McGovern, who serves on the national board of the Catholic Medical Association, answers common questions by Catholics about the effectiveness of the vaccines
The Vatican's coronavirus commission and the Pontifical Academy for Life issued a joint statement calling for a coordinated international effort to ensure the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines worldwide.
The document highlights the "critical role of vaccines to defeat the pandemic, not just
Margaret Whitty didn't hesitate when given the opportunity to be among the first residents of the Stella Maris Nursing Home near Baltimore to receive the coronavirus vaccine.
"They have done their homework," 93-year-old Whitty said of the researchers. She received her first dose
Attorney General Karl A. Racine of the District of Columbia Dec. 22 announced the settlement of a lawsuit filed Dec. 11 by the Archdiocese of Washington regarding the District's previous cap on attendance at houses of worship during this stage of the
Tickets for Masses, virtual holiday concerts, video Christmas cards, and drive-by Nativity scenes: It's beginning to look a lot like a different sort of Christmas.
With COVID-19 contributing to the cancellation of Christmas pageants, caroling and some of the season's most familiar traditions,
The Catholic Schools Office for the Diocese of Owensboro has announced that in-person instruction will resume after the Christmas holidays.
The schools had transitioned from in-person instruction to virtual-only learning in late November, following an executive order from Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, which
Maryland's Catholic bishops are encouraging Catholics strongly to be vaccinated against COVID-19, "unless medically indicated otherwise."
"A Catholic can in good conscience receive these COVID-19 vaccines," they said in a joint letter, which echoed what most bishops around the country, the Vatican and
The Vatican's doctrinal office said that when alternative vaccines are not available, it is morally acceptable to receive COVID-19 vaccines developed or tested using cell lines originating from aborted fetuses.
However, "the licit use of such vaccines does not and should not in