The Supreme Court turned down emergency requests Dec. 13 from New York health care workers seeking a religious exemption from the state's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for its health care employees.
The Supreme Court denied the requests from the two groups in a brief
A reader asks: “Part of Mark 13 reads ‘Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away’. I interpret this to reference Christ’s promise of his glorious second coming, but I’m confused by the mention of heaven, which
Religion usually stays out of the workplace, but now with expanding COVID-19 vaccine requirements, employees' personal faith is front and center as many of them across the country say they have religious reasons not to get vaccinated.
To get a religious exemption, employees
The Supreme Court is allowing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers in Maine to remain in effect, rejecting an emergency appeal from a group of the state's health care workers seeking a religious exemption.
Although the one-sentence order issued Oct. 29
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
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services said Oct. 12 that "no one should be forced to receive a COVID-19 vaccine if it would violate the sanctity of his or her conscience."
Some members of the U.S. armed
Visitors, tourists and employees who want to enter Vatican territory will be required beginning Oct. 1 to show proof of vaccination, recovery from the coronavirus or a negative COVID-19 test.
The anti-COVID ordinance, which was approved by Pope Francis and signed by Cardinal
In his latest column, OSV Publisher Scott P. Richert recalls a quote from Edmund Burke in which the 18th-century political theorist said, essentially, if men and women will not govern themselves, they will be governed. Richert writes that he has thought of
With the delta variant of COVID-19 causing positive cases and hospitalizations to surge across the country, Dr. Thomas McGovern, a former infectious disease researcher, answers questions many Catholics have about the new wave of illnesses, including: How has the delta variant changed
When each individual makes a small act of charity, like getting the COVID-19 vaccine, every gesture added together can transform the world, Pope Francis said in a global ad campaign.
"Being vaccinated with vaccines authorized by the competent authorities is an act of