Zoom Shabbat, drive-through confessional: Faith during coronavirus

During the pandemic, what does it mean to come together and pray? Members of many religions are wrestling with how to best serve their faith while heeding government guidelines.

Even though it was a sunny afternoon, Father Corey Bassett-Tirrell was shocked to see the line of cars in the parking lot of St. Mary Church in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, waiting to participate in the parish’s first ever drive-through confessional.

A week earlier, before the pandemic upended the religious traditions of communities throughout the world, forcing many to forgo physical gatherings for...