“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.”
Christina Capecchi: Learning how to saunter: the gifts of quarantine
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.
How has the coronavirus affected central Minnesota’s farmers?
While farmers are grateful to live in the country, “most are hurt badly by lower prices and the chaos in the processing and delivery of their particular products,” said Joe Borgerding, a member of St. Peter and Paul Parish in Elrosa for 64 years.
Greg Erlandson: To mask or not to mask
I’ve been a bit puzzled about all the debate and outrage over wearing masks. I know some of it is weirdly ideological, but some of it seems to be a misunderstanding of why we have been asked to wear masks in the first place.