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COVID-19 takes toll on Catholic clergy in hard-hit countries | Hundreds lost their lives attending to the sick as pandemic surged across the globe
The coronavirus has taken a heavy toll among Roman Catholic priests and nuns around the world, killing hundreds of them in a handful of the hardest-hit countries alone.
by Associated Press
Jul. 17 2021 @ 5:08pm
The coronavirus has taken a heavy toll among Roman Catholic priests and nuns around the world, killing hundreds of them in a handful of the hardest-hit countries alone.
The dead include an Italian parish priest who brought the cinema to his small town in the 1950s; a beloved New York pastor who ministered to teens and the homeless; a nun in India who traveled home to bury her father after he died from COVID-19 only to contract the virus herself.
COVID-19 Takes Toll On Catholic Clergy In Hard-Hit Countries, Including The US
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The coronavirus has taken a heavy toll among Roman Catholic priests and nuns around the world, killing hundreds of them in a handful of the hardest-hit countries alone.
The dead include an Italian parish priest who brought the cinema to his small town in the 1950s; a beloved New York pastor who ministered to teens and the homeless; a nun in India who traveled home to bury her father after he died from COVID-19 only to contract the virus herself.
In some countries, most of those lost were older and lived in nursing or retirement homes where they didn’t regularly engage in person-to-person pastoral work. Other places, though, saw a bigger hit to active clergy, accelerating a decades-old decline in the ranks that Pope Francis in 2017 called a hemorrhage.
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El coronavirus ha cobrado un alto precio entre los sacerdotes y monjas de la Iglesia católica en todo el mundo, pues ha matado a cientos de ellos en un puñado de países muy afectados.
Entre los fallecidos se encuentra un párroco italiano que llevó el cine a su pequeña comunidad en la década de 1950; un entrañable sacerdote neoyorquino que atendía a adolescentes y a personas sin hogar; y una monja de la India que viajó a su país para enterrar a su padre después de que éste muriera a causa del COVID-19, pero que contrajo el virus ella misma.