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Michael Bayer is the director of evangelization and adult formation at Saint Clement Church in the Archdiocese of Chicago and a graduate of Georgetown University and the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley.
FaithShort Take
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed a kind of American Catholic exceptionalism, writes Michael Bayer. In fact, other Catholics, now and throughout history, have not had regular physical access to the sacraments.