Faiths Share Quandary About Practice

CSM Staff writer Harry Bruinius posted a report that answered an editorial question that precedes it: “During the pandemic, what does it mean to come together and pray?” Religious leaders are responding creatively. Yet the innate human drive to gather, intensified in ritual gestures in hallowed places, leave many feeling empty and fully of questions. The results of prudent closure of worship spaces and physical distancing “have even presented profound theological conundrums.”

Update: In yesterday’s America Magazine Colleen Dulle considered in more detail the Roman Catholic perspective. Ms. Dulle opened with a first-person account of joining a livestream celebration of Sunday mass.

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Wiki-image Cavernous interior,  Juma Mosque in Shemakha by “shankar s. | CC BY 2.0"

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[This evening: Isolating Need Not Result in Loneliness]