social distancing

Europe’s Christmas dilemma: risk empty chairs next year?
- Nov 28, 2020
Europe’s nations are struggling to reconcile cold medical advice with a tradition that calls for big gatherings in often poorly ventilated rooms, where people chat, shout and sing together — providing an ideal conduit for a virus that has killed over 350,000 people in the continent so far.

By Raf Casert
Brooklyn Diocese asks high court for injunction on limits on indoor worship
- Nov 14, 2020
The Diocese of Brooklyn Nov. 12 filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court for an injunction against Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive order limiting the size of a congregation for in-person services at Catholic churches and other houses of worship.

By Catholic News Service
New Mexico diocese to cease Sunday Mass amid virus surge
- Oct 23, 2020
One of the oldest Catholic dioceses in the United States will again be foregoing Sunday Mass indefinitely as New Mexico marks its latest surge of COVID-19 cases.

By Associated Press

Pope reverts to mask-less old ways amid growing criticism
- Oct 21, 2020
A day after donning a face mask for the first time during a liturgical service, Pope Francis was back to his mask-less old ways Wednesday despite surging coronavirus infections across Europe and growing criticism of his behavior and the example he is setting.

By Nicole Winfield
Welsh archbishop ‘disappointed’ in plan to re-impose ban on public worship
- Oct 20, 2020
A two-week “firebreak” to slow the spread of COVID-19 in Wales has “disappointed” the Archbishop of Cardiff, since it will close churches to public worship.

By Charles Collins
Religious gathering limit upheld as NY hospitalizations rise
- Oct 11, 2020
The number of New Yorkers hospitalized with the coronavirus continues to rise, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday, as authorities heightened their focus on banning mass gatherings in COVID-19 hot spots.

By Associated Press