EditorialCardinal Timothy Dolan, center, looks on as documents relating to Dorothy Day are sealed during a Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York on Dec. 8, 2021. (John Orris/The New York Times)
EditorialThen President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, attend Mass at St. Matthews in Washington on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 2021. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)
EditorialA statue of Rev. Michael J. McGivney, who died in the flu pandemic of 1889-90, at St Mary's Church in New Haven, Conn., in March 2008. (Thomas McDonald/The New York Times)