pandemic

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.

Three new priests were newly ordained in a family-only ceremony, after a final semester of being quarantined by the pandemic.

“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.”

“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.

“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?”

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.

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.

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.