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The public-health order, known as Title 42, allows the United States to bar entry of persons who have recently been in a country where a communicable disease was present.

In 2010, half a million people attended the 102 performances of the play, which is staged every 10 years.

Authors Father Greg Boyle and Sister Joan Chittister offer help as we try to understand how to live during these challenging times — or any time.

The East African nation of nearly 54 million people has administered more than 15.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, and 13.5% of the population is fully vaccinated.

“We’ve had to make many sacrifices. But we make them in light of our Catholic faith, which calls us to show care and compassion for our neighbors, including the elderly and those with underlying health conditions for whom the virus can have devastating consequences.”

Some Catholics object to the use of COVID-19 vaccines derived from stem cells from fetuses aborted 50 years ago; the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith declared all of the vaccines to be morally licit in December 2020.

“We are a Church that understands the significance of sacrifice, and so I’m asking you to make some additional sacrifices for the good of our communities and our people.”

The civil rights leader “was driven by the biblical vision of righteousness and truth, a vision that he understood to be reflected in our nation’s founding documents,” Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez said in a Jan. 15 statement.