Members of the spiritual care team at St. Cloud Hospital are still visiting patients face to face — while wearing protective gear — and helping them use technology to connect with family members who are not able to visit them because of policies in place to protect against the virus.
St. Cloud Hospital chaplains face new challenges during time of pandemic
Bishop Kettler video message: Charting a path forward
“We understand that these are difficult decisions for our civic leaders and that they have many factors to consider in the reopening of life in Minnesota,” Bishop Kettler says in his latest video message.”The bishops of Minnesota also have difficult decisions to make as we determine when to allow public worship with more than 10 people.”
Catholic educators wonder how to restart the next school year
Education leaders imagining how Catholic schools will safely reopen this fall agree on two things: different decisions will be made according to locations and reopening plans may change on short notice.
Prep students from China facilitate donation of 9,000 masks to assist local community
We “are all worrying about this current situation in the United States right now,” said Jiayang “Annabella” Yang, a junior at the school. “Not only for ourselves, we also want our community to become better and healthier.”
Bishop Kettler video message: A process for resuming public worship
“Over the course of the past week, I’ve been in discussions with many people about the best ways to slowly resume public worship in our churches. As I’ve said before, this needs to be a gradual process.”
COVID-19 fear creates stigma, but some Africans more fearful of starving
Throughout Africa, church officials are working to fight the stigma that comes with the pandemic, but people are fearing death from hunger more than death from COVID-19.
On Good Shepherd Sunday, pope remembers fallen priests, doctor
Celebrating Mass on Good Shepherd Sunday, May 3, the pope said the feast reminded him of the more than 100 priests and 154 doctors who have died in Italy “in an act of service” to victims of COVID-19.
Lynn Varco: COVID-19 and equality of care
The unprecedented scale of the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing efforts to provide critical hospital care have raised serious questions about rationing (limiting access) based on disability or age.