The author on his ordination day. Mary Stephen Healey, R.D.C., is pictured at right.
As we well know, the pandemic has upended the lives of us all and brought great suffering to many, especially those who lack resources or who were already living on the margins. Children have had to face their own particular challenges with almost all schools around the nation going fully remote for the final months of the last academic year and many remaining this way or offering only part-time in-person instruction since the fall. School administrators have had to be incredibly resourceful meeting these unprecedented challenges.