Gail Porter Mandell

Gail Porter Mandell is a professor emerita of humanistic studies at St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana. Madeleva, a biography of Holy Cross Sr. Madeleva Wolff, poet, scholar, educator, and Angel Creek: Where the River Meets the Sea, a memoir of her year as a papal volunteer on the Caribbean coast, are two of her books.

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Images from the Church of Our Lady of Loretto's Zoom liturgy, which was held March 22, 2020, through June 20, 2021 (Screenshots courtesy of Sisters of the Holy Cross and Jane Pitz)

A vibrant Zoom liturgy during COVID lockdown leaves lessons for church

When the doors of brick-and- mortar churches closed, and we opened ourselves to a church that grew out of who we became when we gathered together in Christ's name. This was the experience of the Loretto Zoom liturgy.