Kicking off a century of service, the members of St. Brigid Catholic Church celebrated their 100th anniversary by assisting people less fortunate in their South Los Angeles neighborhood.
A Los Angeles pilot program will vaccinate hundreds within 2-mile radius of a Catholic church
A pilot program aims to vaccinate 600 eligible people who live within a two-mile radius surrounding St. Brigid Catholic Church, a Black and Latino parish hit hard by COVID-19 in South Los Angeles. A health worker loads syringes with the vaccine on the first day of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine being made available to residents at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza in Los Angeles, March 11, 2021. The California Department of Public Health is highlighting the new one-dose Janssen COVID-19 vaccine by Johnson & Johnson. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
We continue to receive more news about the wounding and killing of Capitol Police officers and other people in the violent and destructive overtaking of the Capitol. We are learning more about the hours that people in the Capitol were terrified and feared for their lives.
A consequence of the violence was evident at the event for Officer Brian Sicknick in the Rotunda. The loss of his life of service brings sadness to his grieving family, his fellow officers, and his country. We honor those who put their lives in danger to protect us.
Slain U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick lay in honor Wednesday in the building he died defending, as colleagues and members of Congress paid their respects.
LOS ANGELES (RNS) For the past two months, the Rev. Austin Doran has found himself hosting outdoor Mass for at least one COVID-19 funeral every week at St. Anthony Catholic Church in the city of San Gabriel, where many of his congregants are Spanish-speaking and working-class Latinos.
In the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, Doran said there was a “wave of apprehension and fear.” Now, he said, “it’s a wave of infections.”
“It’s a dramatic difference,” he told Religion News Service. “We see the sad evidence in our rate of funerals.”
Doran is experiencing firsthand how the virus is infiltrating the homes of his parishioners, many of them essential workers living in small apartments and houses they share with family. He’s seen relatives of parishioners, of church volunteers and staff die after being infected with the virus.