While many businesses and organizations were hamstrung by the near-immediate shutdown wrought last year by the coronavirus pandemic, the Catholic Mobilization Network flourished in ways like never before, according to its executive director, Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy.
The Trump administration enacted what’s become known as Title 42, saying the Centers for Disease Control had voiced health concerns related to COVID-19, and the Biden administration has continued using it, much to the dismay of immigration advocates.
The Biden administration may not roll back at the end of July a policy that keeps migrants out of the country, citing health measures given the rising number of coronavirus cases in the U.S.
As few hundred people, all wearing masks and socially distanced, attended the recitation of the “Regina Coeli” prayer, Pope Francis offered a warm greeting in light of the tighter controls on gatherings.
“It is morally permissible to receive any of the three vaccines — Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson — currently being shipped around the country.”
The Vatican says general absolution still is permissible where infections continue to rise.
“Kindness is an act of love that’s especially needed amid the anxiety and sorrow over COVID and other societal challenges today.”
“You can’t be thinking, ‘What will we do after the pandemic?’ You have to be doing it now,” said Dominican Sister Teresa Rickard, president and executive director of Renew International.
