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CDC head sees need for schools to reopen but with strict health protocols
On: 8/12/2020, Ian Alvano , In: Nation
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- 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 students against the ...

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CDC head sees need for schools to reopen but with strict health protocols
On: 8/12/2020, Ian Alvano , In: Nation
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- 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 students against the ...

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Pandemic has revealed how often human dignity is ignored, pope says
On: 8/12/2020, Cindy Wooden , In: World
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The coronavirus pandemic has shed light on other, "more widespread social diseases," particularly attacks on the God-given human dignity of every person, Pope Francis said. "The pandemic has highlighted how vulnerable and interconnected ...

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Black Catholics laud Harris pick; others scrutinize past record
On: 8/12/2020, Mark Pattison , In: Nation
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Joe Biden's choice of Sen. Kamala Harris, D-California, as his vice presidential running mate elicited broad smiles from key black Catholics. Others, though, started criticizing her record nearly as soon as the pick was publicized ...

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Sixty years after JFK, wait continues for the second Catholic president
On: 8/12/2020, Mark Pattison , In: Nation
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Thirty-three men between George Washington and John F. Kennedy served as U.S. president. Until Kennedy, all were white Anglo-Saxon Protestant men. It took 172 years for a Catholic to win the presidency. The wait for the next Catholic ...

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Israel's Maronites watch Lebanon's devastation with horror, send donations
On: 8/12/2020, Judith Sudilovsky , In: World
JERUSALEM (CNS) -- From her home's balcony in the predominantly Maronite Catholic Upper Galilee village of Gush Halav -- or Jish as it is known in Arabic -- Neveen Makhoul, 37, can look out and see Lebanon. Like most of the village's residents, Makhoul ...

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Baptize great-granddaughter?
Father Kenneth Doyle
Q. Our granddaughter was not raised Catholic. Now she has ...
'Brideshead Revisited'
Russell Shaw
In the late spring of 1945, as World War II was drawing ...
Rediscovering the reality of the Eucharist
George Weigel
Thinking out loud about a return to "Sunday normal," a ...
Catholic schools are worth saving
By several authors
Late last month, the U.S. Supreme Court corrected an historic ...

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

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- 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 students against the coronavirus, including "wearing a mask, washing your hands, maintaining social distancing."

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The coronavirus pandemic has shed light on other, "more widespread social diseases," particularly attacks on the God-given human dignity of every person, Pope Francis said. "The pandemic has highlighted how vulnerable and interconnected we all are. If we do not take care of each other, starting with the least -- those who are most affected, including creation -- we cannot heal the world," the pope said Aug. 12 at his weekly general audience.

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Joe Biden's choice of Sen. Kamala Harris, D-California, as his vice presidential running mate elicited broad smiles from key black Catholics. Others, though, started criticizing her record nearly as soon as the pick was publicized Aug. 11.

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Thirty-three men between George Washington and John F. Kennedy served as U.S. president. Until Kennedy, all were white Anglo-Saxon Protestant men. It took 172 years for a Catholic to win the presidency.

JERUSALEM (CNS) -- From her home's balcony in the predominantly Maronite Catholic Upper Galilee village of Gush Halav -- or Jish as it is known in Arabic -- Neveen Makhoul, 37, can look out and see Lebanon.

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The Archdiocese of Washington's Catholic Schools Office hailed an Aug. 7 announcement by a Montgomery County health officer that he has rescinded his previous directives forbidding private and religious schools from opening to in-person instruction at the start of the school year.