Since 2005, Susan Walker Schulenberg has been making “Angel gowns” — burial gowns for abandoned newborns. What began as a single act of charity has launched into a full ministry, Rest in His Arms. And during the coronavirus pandemic, her ministry has
A reader asks, “Can a bishop compel congregants to wear face masks to be admitted to church?” Monsignor Charles Pope answers that compel is too strong a word, but a bishop can request that congregants comply with local civil norms, which in
In an essay for Our Sunday Visitor, David Mills writes that when “reading about the more aggressive mask-refusers, I’ve been thinking about my father. He would have had an answer for the guy marching into the store bare-faced and defiant. He would
When Tom Shipley, chairman of Dennis Uniform in Portland, Oregon, wondered how to respond to the growing COVID-19 pandemic, the bolts of plaid fabric and sewing machines at the Portland uniform factory that has been in his family for three generations provided