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Politics & SocietyIdeas
Kevin Jackson
Kyrie Irving had no chance to convince us that he was a neutral party in the vaccine debate because the style of his speech would not allow it.
Usher Gene Johann uses a collection basket during Mass at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Rocky Point, N.Y., in 2018. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
America Staff
A likely increase in 2021 charitable giving is being driven by two factors: increasing financial security and a “heightened sense of people’s needs in the philanthropic marketplace” because of the continuing Covid-19 crisis.
Politics & SocietyNews
Jack Jenkins - Religion News Service
The prelate who oversees Catholics in the U.S. military issued a statement Tuesday supporting service members who have refused to get vaccinated against COVID-19 on religious grounds.
The faithful wear masks and some wear gloves as they receive Communion at the first English Mass with faithful present at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles.
Politics & SocietyNews
Alejandra Molina - Religion News Service
The Pew Research Center found that 82 percent of Catholic adults said they were at least partially vaccinated as of August—including 86 percent of Latino Catholics and 79 percent of white Catholics.
Christine Hill cuts out yellow Stars of David before an Anchorage Assembly meeting about a proposed mask mandate on Sept. 29, 2021, in Anchorage, Alaska. (Loren Holmes/Anchorage Daily News via AP)
Politics & SocietyShort Take
Jenn Morson
Some opponents of vaccine and mask mandates claim that they are being treated like Jews in Nazi Germany. This appropriation of the Holocaust is wildly offensive and shuts down civil discussion.
Politics & SocietyNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Three members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard have hung up their halberds rather than be vaccinated against COVID-19, and three others were temporarily suspended in early October as they were completing the vaccination cycle, the spokesman for the guards told a Swiss newspaper.