Tag: COVID-19

  • October 4, 2021

Three Swiss Guards quit over vaccine mandate

Three members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard have hung up their halberds rather than be vaccinated against COVID-19,...
  • September 28, 2021

Dialogue needed in addressing vaccine hesitancy, Vatican official says

While men and women have a responsibility to be vaccinated against COVID-19, they also have a responsibility to...
  • September 24, 2021

SSPX leader says vaccination can be morally ‘prudent’

While denouncing as an "abuse of power" coercive measures to promote vaccination against COVID-19, a leader of the...
  • September 20, 2021

Vatican to require vaccination proof or negative COVID-19 test

Visitors, tourists and employees who want to enter Vatican territory will be required beginning Oct. 1 to show...
  • September 17, 2021

Public health law experts: Federal vaccine mandate has strong legal footing

President Joe Biden's coronavirus vaccine mandate for workplaces with more than 100 people on the payroll is rooted...
  • September 3, 2021

Vietnamese archbishop as COVID-19 surges: ‘How can our hearts not ache?’

Archbishop Joseph Nguyen Nang of Ho Chi Minh City has encouraged people in his archdiocese, a COVID-19 epicenter,...
  • August 30, 2021

Archbishop Naumann, Arizona bishops urge vaccination, conscience safeguards

Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, chairman of the USCCB's Committee on Pro-Life Activities, encouraged Catholics...
  • August 27, 2021

Vaccine mandates open door for bishops to discern an appropriate action

The rise in COVID-19 vaccine mandates around the country has prompted an increase in interest in a vaccine...
  • August 24, 2021

Richest nations urged to tackle financial turmoil worsened by pandemic

Leaders from the world's 20 largest economies are facing "make-or-break" decisions that can boost health care, reduce poverty...
  • August 23, 2021

COVID-19 makes an already dangerous trek to U.S. border more perilous

July saw record encounters between Customs and Border Protection agents and people attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border...