Covid-19 Publications and Resources

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Africa

• Stan Chu Ilo, “Can Prayer Save Us from Covid-19?” La Croix International (March 21, 2020).
• Stan Chu Ilo, “Why I Did Not Celebrate Online Mass this Easter” La Croix International (April 20, 2020).
• Stan Chu Ilo, “In the Fight Against COVID-19, Africans Must Learn from History” Nigeria World (April 8, 2020).
• Stan Chu Ilo, “Keeping Hope Alive in the Time of COVID-19” Nigeria World (April 19, 2020).
• Stan Chu Ilo, “Pandemic, Poverty, and Power: Thoughts on a Biosocial Ethics of Global Solidarity for Health,” in the June 2020 First.
• Stan Chu Ilo, “Why Do We Put Faith in the Vaccine?” in the November 2021 First.
• Teresia Hinga, “Embracing Care-Mongering in the Age of COVID-19” in the April First.
• Teresia Hinga, “COVID-19’s WASH Factor- a Solution for the Syndemic?” in the July First.
• Teresia Hinga, “COVID-19: Reflecting on the Ethical Ramifications of Flattening the Curve” in the January 2021 First.
• Toussaint Kafarhire Murhula, “Forging a Global Policy to Resist the Threat of COVID-19 in Africa,” PDF, (April 1, 2020).
• Peter Knox, “Climate Change and Covid-19,” in the September 2020 First.
• Laurenti Magesa, “An Alternate View on the COVID-19 Pandemic” in the May 2020 First.
• Reginald Nalugala, “Capacity Development for Peacebuilding in Africa in a Post-Covid-19 Pandemic Future” in the March 2022 First.
• Nora K. Nonterah, Defying the Odds, Vulnerable but not Weak: The Saga of Kayaye in Covid-19 Times” PDF, (July 1, 2020).
• Anne Celestine Achieng Ondigo, “Inequality, COVID-19, and Humanitarian Ubuntu,” in the June 2020 First.
• Anne Celestine Achieng Ondigo, “Challenging Covid-19 Stigmatization with Fratelli Tutti Values,” in the June 2021 First.
• Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, The Pope and the Pandemic: Lessons in Leadership in a Time of Crisis, (Orbis Books, 2021).

Asia and Oceania

• Abundio Babor, “Moral Basis of Lockdown Vis-a-vis Corona Virus Pandemic,” PDF, (May 1, 2020).
• Sharon Bong, “New Normal, Old Gender Norms in the Time of Coronavirus” in the May First.
• Sharon Bong, “Feminist Futures in the Time of Emergency” in the March 2021 First.
• Dalmacito Cordero, Jr., “In loving memory of ‘us’: facing grief during the time of COVID-19 through redirecting perception of life’s realities,” Journal of Public Health (February 5, 2021). Additional correspondence from the author to the JPH available here.
• Dalmacito Cordero Jr., “Sákit Pighati and Pag-asa: A Pastoral Reflection on Suffering During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Philippines,” Journal of Religion and Health (March 27, 2021).
• Dalmacito Cordero, Jr., “Theological Reflection on Suffering: Overcoming Anxiety and Depression during the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Theology Today (April 8, 2021).
• J. Charles David, “The Corona Pandemic and Disaster Ethics,” PDF, (June 1, 2020).
• Edilberto C. De Jesus, Manuel M. Dayrit, Ivyrose S. Baysic, eds., Countering COVID-19: Cases in Crisis Response (Quezon City: Ateneo University Press, 2021).
• Eugene Elivera, “Scarcity and Impunity in Fighting an Invisible Enemy,” PDF, (May 1, 2020).
• Dan Fleming and Toby Hall, “Putting a lower value on older lives is unethical,” The Age, September 22, 2020.
• Dan Fleming, “Covid-19 and the ‘trolley problem’: is there a better way out of the pandemic?” ABC Religion and Ethics, (June 3, 2020).
• Eric Marcelo Genilo, “A Dangerous Law at a Vulnerable Time,” in the July First.
• David G. Kirchhoffer, “Dignity, Autonomy, and Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources During COVID-19,” Bioethical Inquiry, (July 17, 2020).
• Dionius Bismoko Mahamboro, “Family Resilience amidst the Pandemic” in the October 2020 First.
• Dionius Bismoko Mahamboro, “A Difficult Choice for Education” in the July 2021 First.
• Kristine Meneses, “Othering the Other?: A Call for Moral Cosmopolitanism” in the April First.
• Caroline Ong, “Covid-19 in Australia” in the September 2020 First.
• Caroline Ong, “Who is to Blame?” in the June 2021 First.
• Caroline Ong, “Australian Healthcare in Crisis: A New Paradigm Needed” in the February 2023 First.
• Stephanie Ann Puen, “Doing Business in the Philippines During the Covid-19 Pandemic” in the March 2022 First.
• Chito M. Sawit, “Interreligious Dialogue Amidst Covid 19,” PDF, (July 1, 2020).
• Chito M. Sawit, “A Search for God Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic,” PDF, (October 1, 2020).
• Osamu Takeuchi, “What Message is COVID-19 Sending Us?” in the June 2020 First.
• Osamu Takeuchi, “Prayer for Peace in Covid-19” in the February 2022 First.
• Hoa Trung Dinh, “Fighting Covid-19 in Vietnam: Compassion, Accountability and Subsidiarity” in the December 2021 First.
• Revenendo R. Vargas, “Covid-19 & Quarantine: Online Teaching Considerations Amidst Pandemic,” PDF, (July 1, 2020).
• Revenendo R. Vargas, “A Review on the Validity of ‘Confession as a Sacrament’ during the COVID-19 Pandemic,” PDF, (July 1, 2020).
• Mary Min-Yee Yuen, “Crises in Hong Kong and the Ethics of Governance” in the March 2020 First.
• Mary Min-Yee Yuen, “Persistence and Home in a Chilly Winter” in the January 2021 First.
• Mary Min-Yee Yuen, “Blessings in the Midst of Woes” in the March 2022 First.

Europe

• Diego Alonso-Lasheras, “Development and Religion in the Times of COVID-19” in the April First.
• Gregor Buss, “Corona and the Arrogance of the West” in the January 2021 First.
• Carlo Calleja, “Lessons from the Past: Renewing Solidarity During the Current Pandemic,” La Croix International (April 16, 2020).
• Grégoire Catta, “The Post-Covid World Will Not be the Same… Really?” in the October 2021 First.
• Paolo Costa, “We Are Fragile but not Defenceless: Changing is Possible“/”Siamo Creature Fragili, Ma Non Inermi: Cambiare È Possibile,” Foundazione Bruno Kessler Magazine (March 16, 2020).
• Ingeborg Gabriel, “COVID-19, the Economy, and the Global Common Good: Ethical Reflections One Year into the Crisis” in the March 2021 First.
• Edward Hadas, “The Assault on Humanity,” Together for the Common Good (2021).
• Linda Hogan, “Ethics and Vaccine Development,” Covid-19 Law and Human Rights Observatory (August 25, 2020).
• Katharina Klöcker, “Distinguishing the Spirits of Fatigue,” in the July 2021 First.
• Gustáv Kovács, “How COVID-19 Has Reshaped our Private Sphere,” in the June 2021 First.
• Martin M. Lintner, “COVID-19 und Triage: eine (nicht nur) medizinethische Herausforderung” Feinschwarz (April 1, 2020). / “COVID-19 and Triage: A Medical Challenge, But Not Only That” in the May First.
• Christof Mandry, “Lernen aus der Corona-Krise. Triage, Ethik und politische Theologie,” Feinschwarz (April 20, 2020)
• Sigrid Müller, “Moral Discernment in the Context of COVID Vaccination,” in the September 2021 First.
• Peter Štica, “Illness/Disease, Pandemic, and Hope – Considerations at the Time of Coronavirus” in the October First.
• Andrea Vicini, “Life in the Time of Coronavirus“/”Vivere ai Tempi del Coronavirus” La Civilità Cattolica (April 6, 2020). “Viure en els temps del Coronavirus” (Catalan), Documents d’Eglésia (Sept-Oct 2020).

Latin America and the Caribbean

• Verónica Anguita M., “Dilema de la ultima cama o búsqueda del bien comùn,” PDF (July 1, 2020).
• Jutta Battenberg, “Las bondades de la meditación en tiempos de coronavirus,” El Semanario (Mexico), (May 6, 2020).
• Jutta Battenberg, “Salvatión en tiempos de Pandemia,” for the July 2020 First.
• Jutta Battenberg, “El derecho a la salud mental” in the July 2021 First.
• Maria Clara L. Bingemer, “Todas as vidas valem” Jornal do Brasil (Brazil), (April 24, 2020).
• Maria Clara L. Bingemer,“Páscoa: um caminho em meio à pandemia” Jornal do Brasil (Brazil), (April 09, 2020).
• Maria Clara L. Bingemer, “Relacionalidade: as lições da pandemia” Jornal do Brasil (Brazil), (March 26, 2020).
• Maria Clara L. Bingemer, “O necessário diálogo entre fé e ciência” Dom Total (Brazil), (May 26, 2020).
• Maria Inês Castro Millen, “Vulnerabilidade e resiliência en tempos de pandemia,” in the October 2020 First.
• Maria Inês Castro Millen, “Pandemia e Ética Teológica,” in the October 2021 First.
• Emilce Cuda, “Estamos sitiados entre dos frentes: el viral y el liberal” Religión Digital (Argentina), (April 05, 2020).
• Emilce Cuda, “El Papa y el Presidente em sintonía: la unidad o la nada” Página 12 (Argentina), (March 29, 2020).
• Jorge José Ferrer, “Bioética Global Para Tiempos de Pandemia” in the February 2020 First.
• Jorge José Ferrer, “El principio fraternidad y la equidad vacunal” in the February 2022 First.
• Élio Gasda, “Coveiros da democracia” Dom Total (Brazil), (April 23, 2020).
• Élio Gasda, “Guerra contra coronavírus revela inimigo ignorado” Dom Total (Brazil), (April 2, 2020).
• Élio Gasda, “Não se esqueçam dos pobres (Gl 2, 10)” Dom Total (Brazil), (March 26, 2020).
• Élio Gasda, “A peste: papa e Bolsonaro frente ao coronavírus” Dom Total (Brazil), (March, 19, 2020).
• Élio Gasda, “Semana Laudato Si’ em um país governado por perversos e nefastos” Dom Total (Brazil), (May 21, 2020).
• Élio Gasda, “Serviços essenciais, trabalhadores invisíveis e seus enterros noturnos” Dom Total (Brazil), (April 30, 2020).
• Élio Gasda, “Renta básica universal: no te olvides de los pobres (Gal 2,10),” in the June 2020 First.
• Élio Gasda, “El trabajo en tiempos de pandemia: ¿Seguridad económica para quién?,” in the June 2021 First.
• Cesar Kuzma, “O Covid-19 e a vulnerabilidade social” Instituto Humanitas Unisinos (Brazil), (March 20, 2020).
• Claudia Leal Luna, “¿Qué posibilidades tenemos, como latinoamericanos, de convertir la pandemia en una oportunidad?” in the September First.
• Alexandre A. Martins, “Em Busca de Humildade: Que os Nosso Olhos se Abram!” Dom Total (Brazil), (April 11, 2020).
• Alexandre A. Martins, “Ética no Desenvolvimento Rápido de uma Vacina contra a Covid-19,” Dom Total (Brazil), (April 07, 2020).
• Alexandre A. Martins, “Ressuscitação Cardiopulmonar e Covid-19,” Instituto Humanitas Unisinos (Brazil), (April 04, 2020).
• Alexandre A. Martins, “Quatro Questões Bioéticas Diante da Pandemia do Coronavírus (Covid-19),” Dom Total (Brazil), (March 31, 2020).
• Alexandre A. Martins,  “Três Obrigações Éticas na Resposta à Covid-19 e à Escassez de Recursos,” Instituto Humanitas Unisinos (Brazil), (March 28, 2020).
• Alexandre A. Martins, “Coronavirus Challenges the US Market-Based Health Care” Polis and Hope (Brazil), (March 23, 2020).
• Alexandre A. Martins, “Helping People Die with ‘The Heart in the Hands’” in the May First.
• Alexandre A. Martins, “Cuidando até o fim com o “coração nas mãos,” Instituto Humanitas Unisinos (Brazil), (April 25, 2020).
• Alexandre A. Martins, “Paternalismo cultural na saúde e na administração pública” Dom Total (Brazil), (May 25, 2020).
• Alexandre A. Martins, “Religião e política: A Igreja Católica nos EUA perde a oportunidade de ser profética,” Instituto Humanitas Unisinos (Brazil), (May 20, 2020).
• Carlos Arboleda Mora, “Enseñanza Social de la Iglesia y su Aplicación en Tiempos de Pospandemia,” Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, 2020.
• Verónica Naranjo Quintero, “Rito religioso y COVID-19,” PDF (July 1, 2020).
• Verónica Naranjo Quintero, “Pobreza y Mujer: los rostros de la desigualdad expuestos por el COVID-19” in the May 2021 First.
• Agustín Ortega, “Filosofía y teología en la pandemia global” Religión Digital (Peru), (April 24, 2020).
• Robson Ribeiro de Oliveira Castro, “O coronavírus e a ética da responsabilidade” O Lutador (Brazil), (May 16, 2020).
• Robson Ribeiro de Oliveira Castro, “COVID-19: Igreja de portas fechadas ou hospital de campanha?” O Lutador (Brasil), (May 19, 2020).
• Robson Ribeiro de Oliveira Castro, “A Bioética e o descaso com a saúde,” O Lutador (Brasil), (June 1, 2020).
• Robson Ribeiro de Oliveira Castro, “COVID-19 e a banalização da morte,” O Lutador (Brasil), (June 14, 2020).
• Robson Ribeiro de Oliveira Castro, “A reinvenção do cotidiano em tempo de pandemia,” O Lutador (Brasil), (July 14, 2020).
• Robson Ribeiro de Oliveira Castro, “A realidade da pandemia e a desvalorização da vida,” Franciscanos, (August 3, 2020).
• Robson Ribeiro de Oliveira Castro, “O desprezo ao ser humano e os riscos de uma sociedade doente,” Franciscanos, (August 18, 2020).
• Robson Ribeiro de Oliveira Castro, “A Covid-19 e o fracasso do cuidado com o próximo,” O Lutador (Brasil), (August 22, 2020).
• Robson Ribeiro de Oliveira Castro, “O caminho ético do cuidado com o outro em tempos de pandemia,” Franciscanos, (September 2, 2020).
• Robson Ribeiro de Oliveira Castro, “Fratelli tutti e o cuidado com o próximo em tempos de pandemia,” O Lutador (Brasil), (October 27, 2020).
• Robson Ribeiro de Oliveira Castro, “O amor ao próximo e relações humanas fragilizadas: crise ética do cuidado?” Franciscanos, (October 28, 2020).
• Robson Ribeiro de Oliveira Castro, “O caminho autêntico de uma ética do cuidado,” O Lutador (Brasil), (November 17, 2020).
• Robson Ribeiro de Oliveira Castro, “Covid-19 A banalidade da morte e a fragilidade humana,” Conselho Nacional do Laicato do Brasil, (March 12, 2021).
• Robson Ribeiro de Oliveira Castro, “A pandemia que não para de contabilizar os seus mortos” Franciscanos, (March 6, 2021).
• Robson Ribeiro de Oliveira Castro, “A pandemia já fez mais de 300 mil vítimas no Brasil,” O Lutador, (March 24, 2021).
• Robson Ribeiro de Oliveira Castro, “Semana Santa e pandemia: viver os passos de Jesus,” O Lutador, (March 29, 2021).
• Robson Ribeiro de Oliveira Castro, “Caminhando com Jesus neste início de Semana Santa,” Franciscanos, (March 30, 2021).
• Robson Ribeiro de Oliveira Castro, “Servir: uma atitude pascal diante das fragilidades humanas,” O Lutador, (April 2, 2021).
• Robson Ribeiro de Oliveira Castro, “Celebrar a Páscoa em meio à pandemia,” O Lutador, (April 4, 2021).
• Robson Ribeiro de Oliveira Castro, “Celebrar a Páscoa em meio à pandemia,” Franciscanos, (April 4, 2021).
• Robson Ribeiro de Oliveira Castro, “Covid-19 E a crise E o Trabalho, cadê,” Conselho Nacional do Laicato do Brasil, (May 1, 2021).
• Robson Ribeiro de Oliveira Castro, “Dia do Trabalhador e a crise do desemprego,” O Lutador (May 1, 2021).
• Robson Ribeiro de Oliveira Castro, “1º de Maio: a pandemia e a crise do desemprego,” Franciscanos (May 1, 2021).

• Anna Perkins, “Boring to the Front of the Line”: Government Officials in Jamaica’s Covid Vaccine Plan” in the April 2021 First.
• Aníbal Germán Torres, “La propuesta de Laudato si’ que la crisis del Covid-19 permite redescubrir. A cinco años de la publicación de la encíclica, la vigencia de LS 175”, Revista de Teologia 57, no. 132 (2020): 155-168.
• José Trasferetti, “Ética Cristã e Coranavírus,” Correio Popular (Brazil), (March 24, 2020).
• José Trasferetti, “Teologia Moral e o Covid-19,” Correio Popular (Brazil), (May 05, 2020).
• Elton Vitoriano Ribeiro,“¿Es la Sindemia COVID-19 una cuestión de biopolítica?” Jesuitas CPAL (May 26, 2021).

North America

• Jana Bennett, “Disabilities in Hiding: How the Pandemic Might Shape Justice for All of Us” Berkley Forum, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, & World Affairs (April 16, 2020).
• Gerald J. Beyer, “Solidarity and Social Distancing,” Together for the Common Good (April 2020).
• Gerald J. Beyer, “COVID-19 and Higher Education,” in the June First.
• Charles Camosy, interview of Marcus Mescher, “Church Can Help as ‘Social Distancing’ Raises Risk of Isolation and Loneliness,” Crux (March 20, 2020).
• Hoon Choi, “Lest We Forget: Awaiting Easter in the Midst of the Covid-19 Crisis,” Catholic Moral Theology (April 8, 2020).
• Daniel Daly, “Guidelines for Rationing Treatment During the COVID-19 Crisis: A Catholic Approach,” Health Progress, Journal of the Catholic Health Association of the United States (April 2020).
• David DeCosse, “Five Ethical Basics in the Face of the Coronavirus Pandemic,” Markkula Center for Applied Ethics (March 20, 2020).
• David DeCosse, “Five Ethical Basics about Hard Health Care Choices in a Time of Pandemic,” Markkula Center for Applied Ethics (April 15, 2020).
• Mary M. Doyle Roche, “#2021: Vaccines in a Year of Favor” in the January 2021 First.
• Matthew Gaudet, “COVID 19, Shelter-In-Place, and Just War Reasoning,” Catholic Moral Theology (April 6, 2020).
• David Hollenbach, Lisa Cahill, Grace Yia-Hei Kao, Michael Kessler, Daniel Sulmasy, “The COVID-19 Crisis and Challenges to the Common Good” Video Discussion, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, & World Affairs (April 8, 2020).
• David Hollenbach, “Who Suffers Most During the Coronavirus Pandemic?” America (May 13, 2020).
• Mary Jo Iozzio, “Concerns for People with Disability During COVID-19,” Berkley Forum, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, & World Affairs (April 15, 2020).
• Kate Jackson-Meyer, “Moral Distress in Nurses and other Health Care Professionals,” Health Progress, Pandemic Coverage, Catholic Health Association, (May 7 2020).
• Cathleen Kaveny, “After Coronavirus, how Will We Learn to Un-Quarantine?” National Catholic Reporter (April 6, 2020).
• Cathleen Kaveny and symposium of religious ethicists, “COVID-19 and Religious Ethics,” Journal of Religious Ethics (August 11, 2020).
• Aline Kalbian, “Moral Responsibility to Protect People in Prison from COVID-19” in the April 2020 First.
• Aline Kalbian, “COVID-19 Deaths and Religious Sisters in the US: Reflections on Everyday Ethics and Solidarity” in the April 2021 First.
• Nuala Kenny, “The Perils and Possibilities of a Pandemic,” La Croix International (March 19, 2020).
• Nuala Kenny, “Good Friday in Pandemic: Deadly Serious Reflections,” La Croix International (April 11, 2020).
• Nuala Kenny, “Emergency Triage of Health Resources and Moral Distress of Caregivers,” La Croix International (April 21, 2020).
• Nuala Kenny et al, “A Catholic Perspective: Triage Principles & Moral Distress in Pandemic Scarcity” PDF, July 2020.
• Nuala Kenny, A Post-Pandemic Church: Prophetic Possibilities, (Novalis, 2021).
• Jason King, “Puzzles, Family Ethics, and the Coronavirus” in the May First.
• Ramón Luzárraga, “Dealing with the Coronavirus” in the March First.
• Eli McCarthy, “We Need a Public Health Approach to National Security Strategy,” Responsible Statecraft (April 13, 2020).
• Eli McCarthy, “Global Health and Just Peace Ethic for Security Strategy in the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Policial Theology (August 29, 2020).
• Brian M. Cummings and John J. Paris, “A Pandemic Refocuses Bioethics on ‘The Big Questions’,” The American Journal of Bioethics, 20.12: 51-54 (November 16, 2020).
• Neil D. Fernandes, Kelly Gardner, John J. Paris, and Brian M. Cummings, “Ventilator Allocation for Pediatrics during COVID-19 – How We Avoided Drawing Lots for Tots,” The American Journal of Bioethics, 20.7: 147-150 (July 27, 2020).
• Julie Rubio, “Belonging, Sacrifice, and COVID19,” Catholic Moral Theology (March 23, 2020).
• Julie Rubio, “How to talk to people who aren’t taking social distancing seriously,” America (March 30, 2020).
• Julie Rubio, Guest, Take Two, KPCC 89.3 (April 14, 2020).
• Andrea Vicini, “COVID-19: A Crisis and a Tragedy-What’s Next?” Theological Studies Vol. 82, No. 1, 116–137 (March 2021).

Ongoing coverage from the United States news source National Catholic Reporter on Covid-19 is available here, including

• Heidi Schlumpf, Michael Sean Winters, Joshua J. McElwee, “The Church After Coronavirus: How Our Communities are Changing,” National Catholic Reporter (April 1, 2020). Featuring reflections by CTEWC members Lisa Fullam, Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator, and Julie Rubio.
• Heidi Schlumpf, Michael Sean Winters, Joshua J. McElwee, “The Church After Coronavirus: New Understandings of Social Mission” National Catholic Reporter (April 3, 2020). Featuring a reflection by Jim Keenan.
• Joshua J. McElwee, “‘Grace Comes Through’: Three Bishops on Ministering During a Pandemic,” National Catholic Reporter (April 24, 2020). Featuring an interview with Sarajevo participant Cardinal Blaise Cupich.