COVID-19 and the Worldwide Church
Saturday, November 14, 2020
4:00 p.m. EST
Register for Zoom
Join us at 4 p.m. EST/3 p.m. CST on Saturday, November 14th as we cosponsor a Zoom webinar with the Harvard Catholic Forum and the Lumen Christi Institute. John L. Allen Jr. will present “COVID-19 and the Worldwide Church.” The Saint Benedict Institute is a cosponsor of this event.
This webinar is free and open to the public. The event will be presented on Zoom (registration required), as well as through live-stream on YouTube. For more information and to register for this webinar, click here.
The pandemic of 2020 has disrupted the sacraments and public worship, scattered communities, and put local churches into new, sometimes strained, relationships with civil authorities. The Church has also been a significant actor in the crisis, offering relief services and spiritual care on a massive scale. What does all this mean for the worldwide Church, now and in the years to come?
John Allen is the Founder and Editor of Crux, an independent online news website reporting on the Catholic Church. As a journalist, his work has appeared in Crux, The Boston Globe, The National Catholic Reporter, The New York Times, The Tablet, CNN, and many other outlets. He is the author of numerous books, including The Catholic Church: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2014), and A People of Hope: The Challenges Facing the Catholic Church and the Faith That Can Save It (Image, 2013), co-authored with Timothy Cardinal Dolan.