{"id":349,"date":"2020-03-26T20:23:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T00:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/?page_id=349"},"modified":"2022-01-04T22:42:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T02:42:08","slug":"roman-catholic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/christianity\/roman-catholic\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman Catholic Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Holy See (Vatican)<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/12\/21\/cdf-morality-vaccines\/\">Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: Note on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines<\/a> (Dec. 21, 2020)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/03\/25\/decree\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Decree in time of COVID-19 (II)<\/a> (March 25, 2020)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/03\/11\/dicastery-integral-human-development\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Message of the Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development in the time of coronavirus<\/a>&nbsp;(March 11, 2020)<\/p>\n<h4>(Arch)bishops<\/h4>\n<h6>united states<\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/files\/2020\/12\/moral-considerations-covid-vaccines.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: Moral considerations regarding the new COVID-19 vaccines<\/a> (December 11, 2020)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcda.org\/application\/files\/9916\/0260\/5501\/Christmas_2020_Guidelines.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diocese of Albany: 2020 Christmas Mass guidelines<\/a> (October 7, 2020)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buffalodiocese.org\/documents\/Coronavirus\/Forward%20in%20Faith-%2005-20-2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diocese of Buffalo: Guidance for returning to parish life<\/a> (June 5, 2020)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2021\/08\/27\/archdiocese-boston-vaccine-exemptions\/\">Archdiocese of Boston: Vaccine exemptions<\/a> (August 27, 2021)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/12\/14\/archdiocese-denver-covid-vaccines\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Archdiocese of Denver: A letter to the faithful from the Colorado bishops on COVID-19 vaccines<\/span><\/a> (December 14, 2020)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/05\/12\/detroit-resumption-public-masses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diocese of Detroit: Directives for resumption of public Masses<\/a> (May 12, 2020)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/files\/2021\/01\/COVID-Vaccines-A-Pastoral-Guide-FINAL_12.09.2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diocese of Fresno (Calif.): A pastoral guide to COVID vaccines<\/a> (December 9, 2020)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/03\/24\/friday-abstinence\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux (La.): Bishop Fabre dispenses faithful from Friday abstinence<\/a>&nbsp;(March 24, 2020)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2021\/02\/26\/archdiocese-orleans-janssen-vaccine\/\">Archdiocese of New Orleans: A statement regarding the Janssen\/Johnson &amp; Johnson COVID-19 vaccine<\/a> (February 26, 2021)<\/p>\n<p>Archdiocese of New York<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/03\/14\/archdiocese-ny-mass-attendance\/\">Mass attendance<\/a> (March 14, 2020)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/05\/21\/archdiocese-ny-returning\/\">Returning to public worship<\/a> (May 21, 2020)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/05\/22\/orange-public-masses\/\">Diocese of Orange (Calif.): Limited public Masses can begin on Sunday, June 14, in phased approach<\/a>&nbsp;(May 22, 2020)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/12\/01\/deeley-covid-vaccine\/\">Diocese of Portland (Maine): Bishop Deeley: Resounding Support of COVID-19 Vaccines, Implores all People to Get the Vaccine When Available<\/a> (December 2020)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/03\/12\/liturgical-response\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Diocese of Syracuse (N.Y.): The Church\u2019s liturgical response to coronavirus<\/a>&nbsp;(March 12, 2020)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/03\/13\/vermont-catholic-statement\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Diocese of Vermont: Statement from Bishop Christopher J. Coyne on COVID-19<\/a> (March 13, 2020)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/02\/28\/archdiocese-washington\/\">Statement from Archdiocese of Washington on Coronavirus<\/a> (February 28, 2020)<\/p>\n<h6>international<\/h6>\n<p>Archdiocese of Sydney, Australia:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/files\/2020\/12\/Pastoral-Letter-COVID19-180320.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In a time of pandemic<\/a> (March 18, 2020)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/files\/2020\/12\/Pastoral-Letter-COVID19-230320.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Restrictions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic<\/a> (March 23, 2020)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/files\/2020\/12\/Third-Pastoral-Letter-to-the-Clergy-and-Faithful-of-the-Archdiocese-of-Sydney-300320.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latest restrictions in response to COVID-19<\/a> (March 30, 2020)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/files\/2020\/12\/AAF-Fourth-Pastoral-Letter-to-the-Clergy-24.04.20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Easter and Holy Week announcements<\/a> (April 24, 2020)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/files\/2020\/12\/Archbishops-5th-Pastoral-Letter-on-COVID-19.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Step one of the relaxation of restrictions<\/a> (May 13, 2020)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/files\/2020\/12\/COVID19-20.05.29-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Further relaxation of restrictions in the light of Pentecost<\/a> (May 29, 2020)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/files\/2020\/12\/Archbishop-Fishers-7th-Pastoral-Letter-to-the-Clergy-and-Faithful-during-the-COVID-19-pandemic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Further relaxation of restrictions<\/a> (July 2, 2020)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/files\/2020\/12\/Come-Home-to-Mass-13.12.20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Come home to Mass!<\/a> (December 13, 2020)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/02\/14\/faqs-suspension-mass\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Singapore: FAQs on the suspension of Mass <\/a>&nbsp;(undated, probably February 2020)<\/p>\n<h4>Local parishes<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/04\/01\/catholic-albany-ga\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">St. Theresa\u2019s Catholic Church, Albany, Ga.<\/a> (undated, probably around April 1, 2020)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/05\/21\/st-peter-returning-public-worship\/\">Roman Catholic Church of St. Peter and Our Lady of the Rosary, N.Y.: Returning to public worship<\/a> (May 21, 2020)<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Other Catholic organizations<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2021\/09\/16\/california-catholic-vaccines\/\">California Catholic Conference: Catholic moral teaching and tradition on COVID-19 vaccines<\/a> (September 16, 2021)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2021\/07\/28\/catholic-medical-association-vaccine-exemptions\/\">Catholic Medical Association opposes vaccine mandates without conscience and religious exemptions<\/a> (July 28, 2021)<\/p>\n<p>National Catholic Bioethics Center:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/04\/03\/catholic-bioethics-ethical-triage\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Ethical concerns with COVID-19 triage protocols<\/a> (April 3, 2020)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/04\/08\/catholic-bioethics-vaccines\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">COVID-19 vaccines: Promote life and health without undermining human dignity<\/a> (April 8, 2020)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/04\/15\/ncbc-triage-protocol-guidelines\/\">Triage protocol guidelines (full version)<\/a> (April 15, 2020)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/04\/15\/catholic-bioethics-faq\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">COVID-19 FAQ<\/a> (April 15, 2020)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/04\/16\/ncbc-triage-principles\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Summary of triage principles and applications for Catholic health care organizations<\/a> (April 16, 2020)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/04\/22\/catholic-bioethics-sacraments\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Pandemic and the right to the sacraments<\/a> (April 22, 2020)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/files\/2020\/08\/NCBC-Duty-to-care-during-a-pandemic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The duty to care during a pandemic<\/a> (April 29, 2020) [a preprint of an article forthcoming in&nbsp;<em>National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly<\/em>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Culture of Life Foundation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/03\/13\/culture-of-life-stockpiling\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Coronavirus and the ethics of stockpiling<\/a> (March 13, 2020)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/03\/26\/culture-life-triage\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The coronavirus pandemic and the ethics of triage<\/a> (March 26, 2020)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/08\/01\/culture-life-contact-tracing\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Be Responsible: Why we should reject COVID digital contact tracing<\/a> (August 1, 2020)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/files\/2020\/06\/National-Catholic-Partnership-on-Disability.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Catholic Partnership on Disability: Rights for persons with disabilities to medical treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic<\/a>&nbsp;(undated, after March 28, 2020)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/files\/2020\/06\/A-Faith-Response-to-Coronavirus.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Pastoral Center: A faith response to coronavirus<\/a>&nbsp;(April 2020)<\/p>\n<p>Thomistic Institute:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5f15cbffa988803a91fc73a5\/t\/5f22fe06632ec75014e87c3f\/1596128774925\/Guidelines%2Bon%2BConfession%2B%284.6.2020%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guidelines for the sacrament of confession<\/a> (April 6, 2020)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5f15cbffa988803a91fc73a5\/t\/5f22fe3c8fb7ee119dd87295\/1596128828642\/Guidelines%2Bon%2BAnointing%2B%285.1.2020%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guidelines for anointing of the sick<\/a> (May 1, 2020)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5f15cbffa988803a91fc73a5\/t\/5f22fe8580ecbe4339ff3be1\/1596128901762\/Baptism%2BGuidelines%2B%286.11.2020%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guidelines for baptism<\/a> (June 11, 2020)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5f15cbffa988803a91fc73a5\/t\/5f22fe5fcf623210c89b1513\/1596128863760\/Holy%2BOrders%2Bguidelines%2B%286.14.2020%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guidelines on the conferral of Holy Order<\/a> (June 14, 2020)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5f15cbffa988803a91fc73a5\/t\/5f22fea1623ef541001984e3\/1596128930057\/Confirmation%2BGuidelines%2B%286.14.2020%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guidelines for the sacrament of Confirmation<\/a> (June 14, 2020)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Catholic Individuals<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/05\/26\/austriaco-moral-guidance-vaccines\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rev. Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco: Moral guidance on using COVID-19 vaccines<\/span><\/a> (May 26, 2020)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/07\/13\/gottschall-mass-pandemic\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Brendan Gottschall, S.J.: Should you go to Mass in a pandemic?<\/a>&nbsp;(July 13, 2020)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/04\/30\/martin-faith-over-fear\/\">Rev. James Martin, S.J.: Faith over fear during COVID-19<\/a>&nbsp;(April 15, 2020, updated April 30)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2021\/01\/05\/redmond-catholics-get-vaccine\/\">Mary Catherine Redmond: Catholics should love their neighbor by getting vaccinated<\/a> (January 5, 2021)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/03\/17\/reno-keep-the-churches-open\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">R.R. Reno: Keep the churches open!<\/span><\/a> (March 17, 2020)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/12\/11\/schneider-vaccines\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bishop Athanasius Schneider: Covid vaccines: The ends cannot justify the means<\/span><\/a> (December 11, 2020)<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holy See (Vatican) Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: Note on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines (Dec. 21, 2020) Decree in time of COVID-19 (II) (March 25, 2020) Message of the Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development in the time of coronavirus&nbsp;(March 11, 2020) (Arch)bishops united states United States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1764,"featured_media":0,"parent":37,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":91,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3274,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349\/revisions\/3274"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}