A new survey undertaken by the Catholic Union of Great Britain, a group set up to scrutinize public policy and make representations to the government on behalf of the church, discovered that 62% of 1,000 people interviewed said their mental and physical
Nearly five months ago, on May 5, 2023, the World Health Organization declared an end to the global COVID health emergency. After three long years, the government no longer considered us to be living in a pandemic. Despite the hardships and the
The National Catholic Educational Association says Catholic schools have recovered more quickly from the pandemic than its public school counterparts.
The successes, according to the NCEA, go across the board when looking separately at Black students, Hispanic students, students from low-income households, and
The Supreme Court June 30 rejected a challenge to New York's vaccine mandate for health care workers with no religious exemption.
By denying the appeal, the justices left a lower court ruling in place that rejected the health care workers' claim that the
The COVID-19 pandemic overshadowed much of the college experience for this year's graduating class, but nursing school graduates may have felt this more acutely.
The pandemic forced them to initially learn procedures online that are very much hands-on, and it also constantly reminded
At Catholic college and university graduation ceremonies across the country, speakers praised students for lessons learned during these past four years that had nothing to do with classes, projects or late-night study sessions, but instead with how they adapted to their workload
The Church in the United States is hurting. We are losing people in droves. Mass attendance is lower than in generations, even though the pandemic restrictions on gatherings have been eased in most places. Catholic institutions are shrinking under our watch, and
The Biden administration has confirmed it will lift a public health measure in May that was put in place at the start of the coronavirus pandemic that has kept asylum-seekers out.
Catholic groups that support immigrants have long been calling for an end
"Serious thinking" about inequality in health care "is a task we can no longer put off," Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, told a New York audience March 30.
Archbishop Paglia spoke on "The Serious Problem of Inequality in
With many, but not all, COVID-19 restrictions eased in many parts of the world, the Vatican asked bishops and priests to be prudent in their planning for Holy Week and Easter liturgies but offered no firm instructions. "In view of the ongoing