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Month: August 2020

Nation & World

At Beirut parish, signs of hope, demands for accountability after blast

August 18, 2020 Catholic News Service

BEIRUT—Sunlight streamed through the damaged rotunda roof of Mar Mikhael Maronite Catholic Church, damaged when a massive explosion in the port ripped through the city. In the light, Baby Simon’s parents readied him for his […]

Greenville Deanery

Waldrop family takes a leap of faith into the missionary world

August 18, 2020 Terry Cregar | The Catholic Miscellany

SPARTANBURG—The coronavirus pandemic has forced many to pause and, in some cases, rethink their lives.  The Waldrop family was on that path long before the word “quarantine” entered daily conversations.  Last spring, with the pandemic […]

Español

Iglesia en Latinoamérica: las cárceles son súper propagadoras de la pandemia

August 17, 2020 Catholic News Service

SAO PAULO – Países en América Latina están viendo un aumento en las tasas de infección y mortalidad por el COVID-19 entre los reclusos de cárceles superpobladas a pesar de advertencias y súplicas de las […]

Myrtle Beach Deanery

Business owner follows her ancestor’s example in a crisis

August 17, 2020 Amy Wise Taylor | The Catholic Miscellany

MYRTLE BEACH—Donna Brin experienced the circle of life in a unique way recently when the pandemic reconnected her across 102 years to her great-grandmother … and another global pandemic. Brin owns bFIVE40, a large format […]

Nation & World

Academy for Life criticizes new Italian rules for RU-486

August 16, 2020 Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY—The Italian health ministry’s liberalization of recommendations for using RU-486 to induce an abortion is a further sign that the government is moving away from its promise to help women and families facing an […]

Nation

Rising gun violence amid pandemic points up bishops’ call for commonsense gun laws

August 15, 2020 Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON—When Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, prayed for the dead on the first anniversary in early August of the mass shooting at a Walmart in his city, he made that solemn tribute […]

Nation

CDC head sees need for schools to reopen but with strict health protocols

August 14, 2020 Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON—Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, thinks it is a good idea for schools to reopen for in-person classes but with restrictions in place to protect teachers, staff and […]

News

Schools enact cleaning strategies to prepare for students

August 14, 2020 Christina Lee Knauss | The Catholic Miscellany

The last few weeks before classes start are always intensely busy for teachers and administrators at schools around the diocese, but this year the preparations look a little different. Cleaning supplies and bottles of hand […]

Myrtle Beach Deanery

Carolina Forest forms new Catholic community

August 14, 2020 Christina Lee Knauss | The Catholic Miscellany

MYRTLE BEACH—A new Catholic community is off to a good start in the rapidly growing Carolina Forest area of Horry County, overcoming challenges including an ongoing pandemic and a recent visit from Hurricane Isaias.  The […]

Nation & World

Prisons as pandemic super-spreaders: Latin American church raises alarm

August 13, 2020 Catholic News Service

SAO PAULO—Ignoring early warnings and pleas from bishops’ commissions for prison ministry, countries across Latin America are seeing rising COVID-19 infection rates and deaths among inmates in their generally overcrowded prisons. “Confinement and the concentration […]

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