COVID-19 pandemic

Pro-life advocates said while they are disappointed the national March for Life will be virtual this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they were not discouraged and planned to hold local events.

By March, the vicariate plans to have 2,500 digital radio receivers ready to distribute to homes along the banks of major jungle rivers, including the Amazon, so students can tune in to the government’s distance learning program, “Learn at Home,” during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Quebec government announced Jan. 6 that places of worship will be completely closed from Jan. 9 to Feb. 8, 2021, during the pandemic.

Extreme global temperatures, wildfires and hurricanes continued to plague the planet during 2020, prompting U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to appeal to the world to end its “war on nature.”

The “gravity” of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and “the lack of availability of alternative vaccines,” are “sufficiently serious” reasons to accept the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, the chairmen of the U.S. bishops’ doctrine and pro-life committees said Dec. 14.

The global pandemic and new limits on daily activities present a special time for a renewal of faith and the opportunity to deepen appreciation for Jesus in daily life, bishops across the country said in messages for the Advent season.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been yet another burden for Miami-Dade County’s historic Black Catholic community, an aging congregation once centered in Overtown and Liberty City but increasingly dispersed.

Seminarians from St. Charles Boromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, Pa., help to keep hungry people alive during the current COVID-19 pandemic.