Increasingly Diverse Families Embrace Home Schooling Amid Pandemic
Black and Latino home-schooling groups have expanded as more diverse families opt to teach their children at home.
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COVID-19 Pandemic Exposes Great Need for Delivering Care Based on Conscience and Compassion
COMMENTARY: The pandemic has shed a light on over-use of medical technology, resource scarcity and limited access, an epidemic of loneliness, the use of euphemisms like “medical aid in dying,” and a growing inability within our culture to deal with suffering.
Vatican Bank Reports $44 Million Profit in Pandemic Year
Writing in the annual report, Cardinal Santos Abril y Castelló recalled that the institute published its internal regulations for the first time in its history in 2020.
Cardinal at Fatima Shrine: World Needs ‘Spiritual Restart’ After Pandemic
Addressing a reduced number of pilgrims due to coronavirus restrictions, the cardinal said: “What did the Virgin ask to humanity, through the little shepherds? Prayer, penance, and conversion, that is, concrete means of interior reconstruction.”
Council of Cardinals Discusses Pandemic Recovery and Curial Reform with Pope Francis
The group of cardinal advisers, sometimes referred to as the C9 because it previously had nine members, was established by Pope Francis in 2013, to “assist him in the governance of the universal Church,” as well as to revise the text of the 1988 apostolic constitution Pastor bonus.
Pope Francis Prays for Pandemic-Stricken India
The country has recorded more than 21 million cases of COVID-19 and over 230,000 deaths as of May 6.
Pope Francis to Launch Rosary ‘Marathon’ for End to Pandemic
The rosary kicks off a month of daily rosaries prayed at Catholic shrines around the world for the intention of an end to the coronavirus pandemic and the resumption of work and social activities.
U.S. Religious Freedom Commission: Some Countries Used Pandemic to Target Religious Minorities
USCIRF Chair Gayle Manchin, who is also the wife of Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., told reporters on a Wednesday press call that “in many cases, these [public health] measures complied with international human rights standards,” but in some places they did not.
Meet the Friars Feeding the Hungry During the Pandemic: ‘It’s a Beautiful Thing’
While friars serve food, volunteers kneel in prayer in a simple chapel before the Blessed Sacrament.
