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Catholic doctors and ethicists react to CDC’s revised childhood vaccine schedule

Catholic News Agency|Jan 12, 2026|5 Min Read

Pope Francis arrives for an annual meeting with diplomats accredited to the Holy See, at the Vatican Jan. 10, 2022. In his address, the pope called for an urgent reality check against misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope decries politicization of COVID pandemic, vaccines

Elise Ann Allen|Jan 10, 2022|8 Min Read

People raise signs against a chain-link fence to show drivers on Ohio State Route 8 during a protest against the COVID-19 vaccine mandates at Summa Health Hospital in Akron, Ohio, Aug. 16, 2021. (CNS/Stephen Zenner, Reuters)

Church’s contrasting reactions to vaccine mandates likely here to stay

John L. Allen Jr.|Sep 27, 2021|4 Min Read

People in the Queens borough of New York City pray outside St. Bartholomew Church May 15, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. (CNS photo/Brendan McDermid, Reuters)

Faith

Survey: Religiosity seems to be 'buffer' against some pandemic stresses

Kurt Jensen|May 27, 2021|3 Min Read

A guest living in a Rome shelter receives his COVID vaccine. (Vatican Media/CNA)

World

Online system is denying people access to vaccines, Italian official says

Carol Glatz|May 27, 2021|4 Min Read

Pope Pius IX, the last of the popes with temporal power over the Papal States, continued a smallpox vaccination campaign begun by Pope Pius VII and offered a small financial reward to those who were vaccinated. (CNS)

Faith

Papal vaccine campaigns offered punishments, rewards 200 years ago

Cindy Wooden|May 9, 2021|2 Min Read

Rohan Aggarwal, 26, a resident doctor treating patients suffering from COVID-19, looks at a patient's X-ray scan, inside the emergency room of Holy Family Hospital, during his 27-hour shift in New Delhi May 1, 2021. As India faces a massive surge in new infections and deaths caused by COVID-19, Pope Francis said he was praying for all those affected by the huge health emergency. (Danish Siddiqui/Reuters, via CNS)

Catholics debate Biden’s waiver of property rights for vaccines

John Lavenburg|May 8, 2021|5 Min Read

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a hearing on the Capitol Hill in Washington April 15, 2021. Fauci and Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, delivered opening remarks May 6 at a three-day international online conference on health care for a healthier world. (Susan Walsh/Pool via Reuters via CNS)

World

Humility, open mind needed to crack coronavirus’ secrets, expert says

Carol Glatz|May 7, 2021|5 Min Read

President Joe Biden applauds a man receiving the COVID-19 vaccine at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Va., April 6, 2021. (CNS photo/Kevin Lamarque, Reuters)

Move to waive vaccine patents is good step, says Catholic health official

Carol Zimmermann|May 6, 2021|3 Min Read

Cardinal Beniamino Stella, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, attends a news conference at the Vatican in this Oct. 24, 2019, file photo. Cardinal Stella said priests ministering "on the front lines" in parishes, prisons or hospitals should be considered at-risk, requiring priority COVID-19 vaccination. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

World

'Front-line' priests should have priority access to vaccine, cardinal says

Carol Glatz|May 4, 2021|3 Min Read

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Connecticut legislature considers ending religious exemptions for vaccines

Catholic News Agency|Apr 20, 2021|5 Min Read

A guest living in a Rome shelter receives his COVID vaccine. (Vatican Media/CNA)

White House: Pope Francis has said there’s a ‘moral obligation’ to get vaccinated

Matt Hadro|Apr 7, 2021|3 Min Read

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