via the Georgetown Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life:

Individualism too often defines our current social and political moment in the United States. It contributes to polarization, civic disengagement, and general apathy, and it has contributed to the weakening of democratic processes and norms. Especially after the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ideals of collective striving, solidarity, and responsibility for our neighbors seem to be receding from public life. This pandemic, Pope Francis has said, “unmasked the other pandemic, the virus of indifference, which is the result of constantly looking away.” The culture in many Latino communities resists this slip into individualism. Households are often intergenerational and family is paramount; obligations to neighbors and others in close communities are central, and many times, solidarity is born out of shared joys and difficulties. Can these attitudes, norms, and practices offer a model for communities that haven’t yet recovered from years of isolation?