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Jun 26, 2020 · The message from public health officials is clear: wear a mask to help protect yourself and others from coronavirus. But not everyone is on board – particularly some members of the faith community. More and more, people are citing their faith as a reason why they shouldn’t have to wear a mask.
- Mask Mandate, For The Church at Least, in Kentucky
- A Politicized Covid Response in Florida?
- Re-Masking in The Nation’S Capital
- In Louisiana, A ‘Dire’ Situation
- Reaching The Vaccine-Hesitant
While most dioceses will continue to rely on the judgment of local or state health officials regarding mask-wearing and other Covid-19 safety protocols, at least one bishop felt compelled to do a little more in an effort to barricade parishioners from Delta. In Kentucky the Delta variant has been powering rising Covid-19 numbers for more than a mon...
On July 30 Florida reported its highest-ever number of daily Covid-19 cases, recording more than 21,000 new cases, and hospitalizations in the state broke recordsall week in August. Despite those escalating numbers—Florida now accounts for about 20 percent of all Covid-19 cases nationally—Gov. Ron DeSantis has resisted restoring mask-wearing and ot...
The Archdiocese of Washington, in compliance with Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s order on July 31 to restore mask-wearing, has reimplemented masks at Mass and “for all of our in-person gatherings,” according to the Rev. Daniel Carson, the archdiocese’s vicar general and moderator of the curia. “None of us want to put the masks back on,” he said, “but eve...
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards reinstated a statewide indoor mask mandateon Aug. 2 for all people aged five and older, as Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations threaten to overwhelm the state’s health system this week. Louisiana is experiencing its worst surge in Covid-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic. The state has the highest per capit...
Assessing the crisis in Louisiana, Archbishop Aymond believes the church “should do whatever we can to promote vaccinations.” “When it comes to human life and the taking of human life because of Covid and because people are not vaccinated, it is indeed an emergency situation. “We have to respect conscience,” Archbishop Aymond said, “but let’s be ve...
Sep 4, 2020 · This view is echoed by some individual faith leaders, with churches flouting requirements that congregants wear masks. Meanwhile, media-savvy pastors have put anti-mask posts on Facebook that have ...
May 26, 2020 · Requiring masks would be less burdensome on our freedoms of religious exercise and assembly than banning church gatherings (or any gatherings) altogether, and therefore the bans on gathering would not be permissible.
Sep 20, 2021 · You could almost hear the collective sigh from pastors everywhere. Really? This again? Within a few days, elder boards were putting their heads together. Do we “require” our members to wear masks? Or “recommend” them? Or can we “rebel” against them? What’s the right word? For instance, my pastor friend Garrett and his elders discussed the matter.
Oct 8, 2021 · On the one hand, the best information from public health experts says masks are a good, simple way to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. On the other, shouldn’t we support the rights of people...
Aug 20, 2021 · Joseph Zwilling, spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York, told Catholic News Service that a mask mandate has not been reinstated, but that pastors have been reminded that other protocols...
