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Bishop Wiesenburger sends out a message to the clergy regarding vaccination and mask mandates. "Dear Father, In recent days I have been approached about exemptions from vaccine requirements or exemptions from facemask mandates.  I will do my best to explain my perspective—which I believe reflects the Church’s teaching on these topics—while remaining as brief as possible..."

A priest recently mentioned to me that he was not planning to get the COVID-19 vaccine. He told me he was concerned that RNA vaccines could alter our DNA and he heard there were also risks to fertility.

Qualms about the vaccines’ development are not entirely misguided. But we can make amends for past injustice. By Leah Libresco Sargeant. Mrs. Sargeant has written books about religion and community building and runs an online community that focuses on the dignity of interdependence.

The vaccination campaign against Covid-19 in the Vatican which began on Wednesday continues with both Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI receiving their first doses of the vaccine.

Dr. Kevin Reichmuth, pulmonologist, at the at Bryan Health debunk some of the fake news about vaccines.

The Vatican's doctrinal office said that when alternative vaccines are not available, it is morally acceptable to receive COVID-19 vaccines developed or tested using cell lines originating from aborted fetuses.

The Vatican health service will begin vaccinating employees and Vatican citizens against COVID-19 using the Pfizer vaccine, the director of the Vatican health service told Vatican News.

Bishop Edward Weisenburger sends out a statement to all volunteers throughout the Diocese of Tucson.

As the Delta variant becomes more dominant across the country, Pima County Health Director Dr. Theresa Cullen sits down with Aalia Shaheed to discuss what the variant's presence means for Pima County.

The Diocese of Tucson partners with the Pima County Health Department to bring Covid-19 vaccines to parishioners

As of July 1, 2021, the general dispensation from the Sunday Mass obligation for the general public will cease. However, the dispensation from the Sunday Mass obligation remains in place for those at serious medical risk.

Bishop Weisenburger sends out urgent message to parishioners

The Bishops of the Arizona Catholic Conference (ACC) are grateful that Governor Doug Ducey has signed into law an important bill (HB 2575) improving religious accommodations for dying patients in hospitals.

The Bishops of the Arizona Catholic Conference (ACC) are grateful that Governor Doug Ducey has signed into law an important bill (HB 2575) improving religious accommodations for dying patients in hospitals.

Multiple strategies afford the most protection.

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.

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- As Catholic colleges grapple with how to reopen in the fall, many are already saying they will require their students to be vaccinated for COVID-19 and some schools are also mandating that staff members be vaccinated.

PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) -- It took courage for Leilani Arellano to return to Mass, but she is glad to be back.

THRISSUR, India (CNS) -- Catholic hospital directors in India told Catholic News Service they did not have enough facilities to treat patients as India set records for the number of COVID-19 deaths -- numbers many people believe were underreported.

Indian hospitals warned on Saturday that they are at breaking point as Coronavirus case numbers set a new record for a third consecutive day.