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
Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, Deacon Larry Oney of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, founder of Hope and Purpose Ministries, writes that COVID-19 has given the entire Church an opportunity to renew, refresh and reboot its efforts to
As we approach the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic, Dr. Thomas McGovern looks back on what the Church in the United States has learned about keeping the faithful safe and healthy — and what parishes
With the one-year anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic approaching, Catholic mom and blogger Bonnie Engstrom writes about the unexpected blessings that the pandemic brought to her family — namely, time together. “My husband and I were grateful,” she writes.
A year after COVID-19 shifted the way parishes have experienced community, clergy and lay experts look at what the Church needs to do once the pandemic is over. Even with the promise that mass vaccinations will push the country to herd immunity