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It is a pleasure and a privilege to join FutureChurch and my illustrious predecessors in this Women Erased series.
I have to confess that I have been, from the beginning of my discussions with Deborah Rose-Milavec about this lecture, both fascinated and a bit uncomfortable with the topic. Obviously, as all the women who have presented in this program have abundantly demonstrated, women in the Christian, but especially in the Catholic, tradition have been marginalized, dismissed, used, denigrated, and even abused in and by the male custodians of the Christian tradition since very shortly after the New Testament period, if not even within it.
May 05, 2021
CWN Editor s Note: Sister Carol Keehan, who heads a Vatican task force on health care, has said that religious should work to overcome public skepticism about Covid vaccines. Complaining about “the massive amount of misinformation,” she said that Catholics should support vaccination. Sister Keehan, in her former role as head of the Catholic Health Association, was a key figure in rallying Catholic support for Obamacare.
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A man receives a second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 at the Belgrade Fair in Belgrade, Serbia, April 13, 2021.
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A man receives a second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 at the Belgrade Fair in Belgrade, Serbia, April 13, 2021.
ROME Members of the Catholic Church, especially religious working in health care and schools, have an important opportunity and duty to educate people about COVID-19 and to counter resistance to vaccinations, said an expert on the Vatican s COVID-19 commission.
Women religious and Catholic organizations who serve others every day and have people s trust are our best hope for safe and fair distribution of vaccines as well as the best tool for convincing people of the safety and importance of taking the vaccines, said Sister Carol Keehan, a nurse and Daughter of Charity.
ROME (CNS) Members of the Catholic Church, especially religious working in health care and schools, have an important opportunity and duty to educate people about COVID-19 and to counter resistance to vaccinations, said an expert on the Vatican s COVID-19 commission.
The recipient of a vaccine holds up his COVID-19 identification card at the National Western Complex in Denver where SCL Health staff administered vaccines Feb. 6, 2021, to vulnerable seniors and members of underserved communities. SCL is a Catholic health care system based in Broomfield, Colo. CNS photo/courtesy Gregg Moss, SCL Health
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ROME (CNS) Members of the Catholic Church, especially religious working in health care and schools, have an important opportunity and duty to educate people about COVID-19 and to counter resistance to vaccinations, said an expert on the Vatican s COVID-19 commission.