By Lisa Zengarini
Access to vaccines for all should be a priority in 2021, says Bishop Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte, President of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM) and of the Bishops’ Conference of Perù (CEP). Taking care of the lives of thousands of our brothers and sisters, strengthening our health systems to successfully respond to the Coronavirus pandemic and find a solution to the crisis that has impoverished thousands of families”, should be among the priority tasks in the next twelve months, the prelate writes in his message for the new year, stressing that universal access to the vaccine is an “urgent need” and aspiration “of all sectors of society.”
Peruvian Archbishop Héctor Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte, president of the Latin American Episcopal Council, offered a social dream, an ecological dream, a cultural dream, and a “dream for our Church” for 2021, “where we all assume our place in equal dignity.
CELAM: Universal access to covid-19 vaccine priority in Latin America CELAM’s President says universal access to the COVID-19 vaccine should be a priority in Latin America in 2021.
By Lisa Zengarini
Access to vaccines for all should be a priority in 2021, says Bishop Miguel Cabrejos Vidarte, President of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM) and of the Bishops’ Conference of Perù (CEP). Taking care of the lives of thousands of our brothers and sisters, strengthening our health systems to successfully respond to the Coronavirus pandemic and find a solution to the crisis that has impoverished thousands of families”, should be among the priority tasks in the next twelve months, the prelate writes in his message for the new year, stressing that universal access to the vaccine is an “urgent need” and aspiration “of all sectors of society”
(Vatican News / video screen grab)
I m always moved by those moments when a part of the Mass angles my vision just so: suddenly, I can hold in mind, all at once, deep specifics and vast abstractions.
Blessing the wine, the priest says, fruit of the vine and work of human hands, and I ground that image in a particular time and place, envisioning a bunch of dusty grapes and a pair of browned hands a woman and her work.
Almost as quickly, though, I m thinking about the rain that fed the vine, and then I m off contemplating the tangled evolutionary process and network of intimacies that produced the picker.