The Coronavirus

Article

An Interview with Pope Francis

From 2020: Pope Francis addresses the English-speaking world as the coronavirus pandemic now reaches the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

By Austen Ivereigh

March 12, 2023

Article

COVID Fatigue

“We do what we are supposed to do, walk the stage, say our lines. But the reality is that, even if we hit our marks, many of our patients will not survive.”

By Ebtesam Attaya Islam

January 14, 2021

Coronavirus

Death and Dying

Health Care

Article

Privileged & Vulnerable

Our residence for retired priests in New York has already experienced two deaths. Even so, Christ is present in routine, natural beauty, and above all, prayer.

By Robert P. Imbelli

April 13, 2020

Article

It Didn’t Have To Be This Bad

We are and always will be vulnerable in some ways. But this does not excuse the short-sighted policy decisions that unnecessarily increased our fragility.

By The Editors

April 27, 2020

Article

Quarantined in the U.K.

Shows of solidarity with the NHS are undercut by years of ill-advised budget cuts, and by a lack of appropriate care for essential workers.

By Nicole-Ann Lobo

April 21, 2020

Coronavirus

Foreign Affairs

Health Care

Article

Alone, Together

Isolation can foster new growth within families or communities despite physical separation, as we confront the crisis with generosity, solidarity, and care.

By Viva Hammer

April 29, 2020

Coronavirus

Spirituality

Article

Distance, Not Desertion

Perfect love casts out fear. And we can do so with a distance that embraces rather than refuses responsibility.

By B. D. McClay

April 24, 2020

Coronavirus

Spirituality

Saints

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Freedom in Solitude

The medieval nobleman-turned-hermit St. Romuald of Ravenna, founder of the Camaldolese Order, viewed confinement not as restriction but as gift.

By Griffin Oleynick

April 16, 2020

Spirituality

Religious Life

Coronavirus

Article

It’s time to be imaginative and inventive about how we can bring God to others

New Ways to Worship

By Regina Munch

April 27, 2020

Coronavirus

U.S. Catholicism

Spirituality

Article

Jazz Vespers

During lockdown, daily concerts from balconies in Brooklyn created a welcome ritual that shaped the endless days and strengthened the community.

By David Gibson

August 12, 2020

Music

Liturgy

Coronavirus

Article

Out of My Senses

I haven’t been able to smell or taste for two weeks. Whatever I am in feels like something very different from what ICU patients are living through.

By Agnes R. Howard

April 16, 2020

Coronavirus

Spirituality

Article

Living in Isolation

Even if we cannot get to the Eucharist, we can still enact symbols of communion to fight the destructive effects of isolation.

By Timothy Radcliffe

March 27, 2020

Coronavirus

Theology

Web Exclusive

Article

A Time for Politics

Stop saying that the coronavirus crisis “shouldn’t be politicized.” It was political from the start.

By Matthew Sitman

April 23, 2020

Article

Joshua Epstein on Contagion & Fear

Humans are hardly the ‘rational actors’ social scientists pretend they are. With COVID-19 cases rising again, epidemiologist Joshua Epstein proposes another model.

By Rand Richards Cooper

June 25, 2020

Coronavirus

Philosophy

Science

Article

An Act of Service

Quarantine during a pandemic is not demonic. Few Christians would ask for this cup, but we must drink it—to serve God by serving our neighbors.

By Jared Lucky

March 25, 2020

Article

Song of Plagues

Psalm 91 is a powerful prayer of hope for communities in upheaval. As we grieve the destruction wrought by the coronavirus, we should turn to it.

By Mahri Leonard-Fleckman

April 18, 2020

Spirituality

Jewish-Christian Relations

Coronavirus

Article

How Will We Eat?

Next to doctors and nurses, the most essential of essential workers—and the most at risk—are those who maintain our food supply.

By Kate Lucky

April 24, 2020

Coronavirus

Social Justice

Economy

Article

Common Sense Isn’t Enough

Why do we resist hard truths about social distancing? Group and general biases, and difficulty recognizing our own fragility, help explain it.

By Roberto J. De La Noval

March 26, 2020

Death and Dying

Coronavirus

Article

Sheltering in Place

Shouldn’t we be paying attention to those minor miracles of creation that occur all around us, even when we’re stuck at home? Marilynne Robinson can help.

By Burke Nixon

May 8, 2020

Fiction

Theology

Spirituality

Article

In the Time of Pandemic

The coronavirus crisis will likely demand the kind of collective sacrifice not seen since World War II. It will also challenge how we live together in society.

By The Editors

March 19, 2020

Article

Without cooperation and collective discipline, many more people who might have been spared will die of this virus

Answering the Shutdown Skeptics

By Santiago Ramos

April 2, 2020

Coronavirus

Philosophy

Bioethics

Article

The Scarlet C

The coronavirus will be here for the foreseeable future. Our task is to learn how to negotiate life with people who have quite different understandings of its risks.

By Bernard G. Prusak

June 9, 2020

Coronavirus

Ethics