Tag: COVID-19

WASHINGTON — While confusion has arisen in recent days in the media over “the moral permissibility” of using the COVID-19 vaccines just announced by...

PHILADELPHIA -- A century ago, seminarians from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood helped bury Philadelphia's dead in the global Spanish influenza pandemic. This year,...

VATICAN CITY  -- While the coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions have interrupted people's lives and brought suffering on a global scale, every individual -- including...

WASHINGTON  -- When Father John Fields received an email from the University of Pennsylvania Aug. 28 asking him if he wanted to participate in...

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court Nov. 19 denied a stay of execution for federal inmate Orlando Hall, who was put to death by lethal...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's order limiting the size of a congregation for in-person services at Catholic churches and other houses...

VATICAN CITY — As the Italian government imposed new restrictions to prevent the further spread of COVID-19, the Italian bishops' conference said churches will...

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Religious Liberty praised the Department of Health and Human Services for resolving discrimination...

VATICAN CITY  -- A resident at the Domus Sanctae Marthae, the residence where Pope Francis lives, tested positive for COVID-19, the Vatican announced. In a...

Responding to editors' requests for a regular sampling of current commentary from around the Catholic press, here is a commentary titled: "In the midst...