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- According to the most recent guide from the diocese, fully vaccinated individuals do not need to wear a mask. However, anyone unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated, age 5 and older, should wear a face covering when present for any Mass or liturgical celebration.
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Aug 5, 2021 · According to the most recent guide from the diocese, fully vaccinated individuals do not need to wear a mask. However, anyone unvaccinated or not fully vaccinated, age 5 and older, should wear a...
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Sep 20, 2021 · Article. 09.20.2021. Just when we thought we were done with masks, the mandates returned. 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?
If guests do not want to wear a facemask, they will not be allowed to attend. During the beta service, Bezner says the church will evaluate logistics of how to host a worship service with social distancing techniques and masks. He says the church will wear masks regardless. They simply want to test out some of the best practices of how to do so.
- 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...
Aug 26, 2021 · “Last week there were no masked parishioners in church save for the clergy distributing Communion,” Theresa Maccarone of Rochester, N.Y., said, responding to America on Twitter. “I’ve decided...
Aug 21, 2021 · GREG LOCKE: You will not wear masks in this church. I'm telling you right now, do not get vaccinated.
Jul 28, 2021 · The CDC also recommended that all people with a weakened immune system also wear a mask, regardless of the number of cases in their area. The new guidelines come as many religious leaders...
