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Sep 20, 2021 · The mask mandates, likewise, present us with an area of possible overlap between church and state. On the one hand, Christians are commanded to gather, and the face, more than any other part of the body, is the physical center of our embodied gatherings. It plays a role in the church’s ability to fulfill its mission.
Aug 20, 2021 · Face masks are back in vogue at Mass. The rising nationwide spread of the delta variant of the coronavirus is leading church leaders to strongly encourage—or even require—Massgoers to use ...
Aug 21, 2021 · Religious Leaders Play A Key Role In People's Decision To Get Vaccines Or Wear Masks A church that earlier denied the severity of COVID-19 changed its messaging after an outbreak. But another ...
Aug 5, 2021 · Despite the CDC’s most recent changes advising fully vaccinated individuals in areas of substantial or high community transmission of COVID-19 to wear a mask in public indoor settings, neither ...
- Olivia Jaquith
- 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 12, 2021 · Here’s a timeline of actions and statements from church leaders on wearing masks: Jan. 29, 2020: The church donated supplies, including respirator masks, to China to help Chinese health care workers in their efforts to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. Inside the church’s donation of masks, coveralls and goggles to China over the coronavirus ...
May 6, 2020 · The primary benefit from using a face mask is to reduce the spread of COVID-19 from the source of infection—an infected person. Homemade masks are less effective than surgical masks but still ...
