As if running out of toilet paper wasn’t indignity enough, Venezuela is now proving itself incapable of supplying yet another staple of life: sacramental wine. The country’s Roman Catholic ...

As I swirl the glass, light flashes through the wine, and I sense a fleeting image of a happy young girl as her blond hair catches the sun. She smells of flowers and grass, and of potential.

Due to the global shutdown, sacramental wine and altar bread businesses have suffered as Covid-19 is preventing most indoor public celebrations of the Mass.

In 1629, Spanish priests planted the first grapes in the local area, and produced some of the first sacramental wine. Cut to today, and Visit Albuquerque says the tradition has not only continued ...