Since the pandemic hit, Tom Haire, principal of St. Mary’s School in Breckenridge, has found a new way to share morning prayer with his students. It started schoolwide and now encompasses the community and more.
St. Mary’s School morning prayer and ‘AAAY-MEN’ reach wider flock
Priests ordained in a pandemic
Three new priests were newly ordained in a family-only ceremony, after a final semester of being quarantined by the pandemic.
Christina Capecchi: Learning how to saunter: the gifts of quarantine
“When you couldn’t go anywhere else – churches were closed, even playgrounds were cordoned off – you could still walk in the woods. So we did, religiously.”
Brett Robinson: A habit to break: ‘Doomscrolling’
“Doomscrolling” refers to the pattern of scrolling through social media in the midst of a pandemic and social unrest and being flooded with morbid messages that elicit an almost physical discomfort.
David Cloutier: COVID-19 and the virtue of prudence
“Everyone recognizes that we can’t simply go back to living exactly as we did before. How should Catholics think about the choices we face?”
Access to broadband may be one of the defining issues of our time
The coronavirus pandemic showed the yawning gaps in the U.S. digital infrastructure, as millions of students just faded away from their teachers’ virtual classrooms because they had no broadband access.
Life and death: Pandemic forces world to confront its greatest fear
For Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, the coronavirus death toll has opened the eyes of many to face a subject they usually avoid: death.
CRS unveils hunger awareness campaign as pandemic hinders access to food
As tens of millions more people are at risk of acute hunger because of the global coronavirus pandemic, Catholic Relief Services is embarking on a campaign to raise awareness, advocate and raise funds to head off the brewing crisis.