A Kansas City-area Baptist megachurch has reached a $150,000 settlement with the county over coronavirus restrictions, with the church claiming that the county treated them more harshly than secular institutions when it came to COVID protocols. Abundant Life Baptist Church, which has locations in Lee’s
Cardinal Raymond Burke on Friday said that he is continuing to recover from a bout of COVID-19 and can offer daily Mass now, in a statement posted on his Facebook account. “With heartfelt gratitude to all those who have prayed for my recovery, I write
As the COVID-19 pandemic marches on, I find that it is not enough for me to help people survive. All too often in the ICU, we collect and analyze data, and see our patients as a set of organs to fix and a list of
Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health and an outspoken Christian, announced Tuesday that he will step down as director after serving in the role since 2009. Collins was the longest-serving presidentially appointed NIH director, the organization says, having served under three U.S. presidents after his
The Canadian Archdiocese of Moncton has rescinded a policy that required all Catholics wishing to enter church buildings to show proof of having received two doses of a coronavirus vaccination and record their names with volunteers. In an update to the archdiocesan policies published at
Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello, president of the governorate of Vatican City, instituted on Monday a new set of public health regulations for the city-state, in response to the coronavirus. The announcement has been widely pitched as a vaccine “mandate” in media reports, especially since it comes
Catholic dioceses will not be exempt from the employer vaccine mandates announced last week by the Biden administration – and responses to the mandate could bring into the spotlight already-existing divisions among Catholics over vaccine mandates. The new federal regulations, announced September 9, will be
Bishop Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, grabbed attention last week when he said that QR codes used to show COVID-19 vaccine status in some countries could be “a prefiguration of the sign of the Beast.” The bishop’s remarks referenced the apocalyptic “Mark of the Beast”
The claim: The Food and Drug Administration hasn’t fully approved Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine The Food and Drug Administration has given its official stamp of approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine. But online, a conspiracy theory doubting that fact has blossomed. “DECEPTIVE MEDIA: Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine NOT FULLY AUTHORIZED,” reads
Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Pro-Life Activities, encouraged Catholics to receive one of the coronavirus vaccines if they discern that it is appropriate to do so. Explaining that he was vaccinated in April after recovering from
