Commentaries
The human costs of solitary confinement
For John Garvey, stay-at-home started out like a weeklong retreat. But as time has gone by, the isolation has felt more like cruel punishment. It's bad for human health because we need one another.
Consider the common good, and wear your mask
We have a right to disagree peacefully, but we also have the duty to serve the common good, writes Effie Caldarola. Wearing a face masks sends the message that we’re in this crisis together.
Acts of bravery are the pandemic’s grace notes
Today's heroes are all about us, staffing emergency medical services and grocery stores, maintaining supply chains, doing medical research, even burying the forgotten dead. These are the stories of our church, writes Greg Erlandson.
A renewed faith for troubled hearts
Christians cultivate their believing relationship through prayer, especially prayer to the loving and merciful Sacred Heart of Jesus, as it was revealed 100 years ago this week, writes Father Thomas Dailey.
An urgent call: The Catholic Church’s Plan B moment
What happens to the church when its Plan A, the status quo, gets upended by the coronavirus pandemic? We must get creative with a Plan B, writes author Chris Lowney, who points to three parishes.
Sick of it, but learning from the springtime of pandemic
The routines of March seem like a decade ago, but Father Eric Banecker notices the call to renewal in some of the well-worn phrases of our grim time during the coronavirus, and what they can teach.
May 5: Your chance to help church’s missionaries in crucial time
The suffering and uncertainties of the coronavirus pandemic are part of a typical day in mission lands. The Pontifical Mission Societies need your help now -- this Tuesday, May 5 -- to help millions.
The immigrant reality during COVID-19
Edith Avila Olea points out how the coronavirus has impacted some more than others, especially minority communities and immigrants. She relies on the Beatitudes and her father's trust in God's care.
Jesus, and our quest to be like him, defy the math
The math you never thought you'd use is appearing in all the virus models and economic charts that mark the pandemic's march, writes Brett Robinson. Look instead to God's creation and human acts of mercy.
Reflecting on the before and after of the pandemic
Greg Erlandson probes America's time of hardship which reveals our character, tests our resilience and humbles us. He hopes our deep divides might ease and we understand again the phrase "E pluribus unum." Out of many, one.