Black Pastor Conducts Funerals For People Untended By Traditional Church
Rev. Irene Monroe has been conducting daily Zoom funerals since last March.
More than a year after the coronavirus pandemic hit, Rev. Irene Monroe is exhausted. A Black pastor in Boston, she has been conducting daily Zoom funerals — often two a day — since last March.
Her funerals maintain pastoral care, respect and dignity for loved ones lost to COVID-19, yet there’s still an “incompleteness” about the virtual ceremonies, she says.
Monroe is learning firsthand the names behind the COVID-19 data showing communities of color are the country’s hardest hit. of the 1980s.
