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Catholic groups push for greater vaccine equity domestically, worldwide

COVID-19 cases are now so numerous it makes little sense to wait for a numerical milestone. In the United States, the death toll is bound to pass 1 million. Worldwide, COVID-19 deaths passed 6 million on March 7, before the second anniversary of the World Health Organization’s pandemic declaration March 11, 2020.

Our Sunday obligation

The following letter was published in parish bulletins the weekend of Nov. 12-13.

The healing mandate of the Gospel

Being married to an infectious disease specialist and global epidemiologist meant my experience of lockdown was a full immersion into the intricacies of COVID-19. It’s been a long two years, but thanks to my daily conversation partner I have learned a lot about science, disease, transmission, vaccinations, and healthcare. One thing is crystal clear: we owe an enormous debt of gratitude to those healthcare workers all over the world who never hesitated to do the right thing, even when it required courage, selflessness, tenacity and sacrifice.

Catholic hospitals draw on spiritual roots to support staff, patients

As hospitals across Illinois and the rest of the country were inundated by COVID-19 patients in January, Chicago-area Catholic hospitals looked to their spiritual roots to offer support not only to patients but to staff members who are exhausted.

Pope calls for urgent ‘reality check’ against misinformation about vaccines

The COVID-19 pandemic calls for an urgent reality check against baseless information and for increased efforts so everyone has access to vaccines, medicines and diagnostic tools, Pope Francis told diplomats from around the world.

Wearing a mask at Mass is a small sacrifice pleasing to God, priest says

Wearing a high-filtering mask over one’s nose and mouth at Mass “is a small sacrifice we can bring to the altar as an offering pleasing to God for the good of all his children,” said Father Roberto Colombo, a geneticist and member of the Pontifical Academy for Life.

Getting the COVID-19 vaccine is a moral imperative

There is good news about how Catholics view the COVID-19 vaccines. According to new polling data from the Public Religion Research Institute, the acceptance rate by white Catholics went from 68% in March to 82% currently, and among Hispanic Catholics, it jumped from 56% to 90% over the same period. This is remarkable, and something to celebrate.

Supreme Court denies religious exemption on vaccine for N.Y. health workers

The Supreme Court turned down emergency requests Dec. 13 from New York health care workers seeking a religious exemption from the state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for its health care employees. The court denied the requests from the two groups in a brief written order without explanation. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch said they would have allowed the religious exemption.

Defend life, promote access to health care for all, pope says

The fear, sickness, death, mourning and economic impacts of COVID-19 should make people who are relatively well off and have access to health care think about "what it means to be vulnerable and live in precariousness on a daily basis," Pope Francis told members of the Pontifical Academy for Life.

Unprecedented times

It wasn’t long into the COVID-19 pandemic that the tone of television commercials changed. Companies wanted viewers to know that they applauded health care heroes, that they were doing everything they could for our safety, that they were there for us “during these unprecedented times.”
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