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Mercy Sister Mary Haddad, president of the Catholic Health Association, is on a mission. She hopes to clarify some of the current confusion leading to both vaccine hesitancy and recent protests over vaccine mandates being put in place to curb the escalating spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19.

Amadou Diallo, a program manager for Catholic Relief Services in Senegal, knows from talking with the farmers and cattle herders in his country that the cyclical droughts the country experienced occurred about once every 10 years for generations.

An Australian outback diocese has announced what is believed to be the world’s first high school to be named after a teenage computer programmer beatified by Pope Francis last year.

CHICAGO (CNS) — For the neighbors who came out for a recent street Mass in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, blessings abounded.

The weather held, with no rain and a breeze to lift the heat. Cicadas sang and birds twittered in the trees, offering entertainment for babies and toddlers in their parents’ arms as Father James Kastigar, associate pastor of St. Agnes of Bohemia Parish, celebrated Mass in Spanish July 22 to mark the feast of St. Mary Magdalene.

Frank Siller still goes to the same Catholic church he has gone to since he was a little kid, Blessed Sacrament in the New York City borough of Staten Island. He always sits in his family’s same pew for Mass.

As some Catholics are seeking a religious exemption to the coronavirus vaccine mandates that are becoming more common in workplaces and even some public venues, priests in the Archdiocese of New York have been advised not to get involved in that process.