“The booster is not enough”. New York isolates tourists and the unruly

NEW YORK – On the altar of St. Paul in the Upper West Side, the mother church of those Paulines who were the first order of Catholic priests founded in the United States, Father Rick Walsh holds his mobile phone and reads from there the sermon that the faithful, well spaced apart, they follow on a special app. Just like two years ago, when the Big Apple found itself to be America’s main hotbed, sacred books and prayer sheets have been put away: “We certainly don’t ask for the vaccine,” the pastor tells you when you go to greet him.