If you are Catholic, then you should recognize that the statements of faith are correct. And indeed, the consequences of masking include shielding our humanity (our faces and personal expressions are part of what makes us unique individuals), decreased interaction (obvious, and the the other controls make it worse), and inhibit the interactions that we do have (more difficult to hear, read lips, and pick up on facial expressions). Last spring, I wrote something similar to our priest and bishop.
Masks are inhumane and should be a matter of choice for individuals, businesses, and churches.
I’ve never seen any encyclical, Catechism text, or argument by a theologian supporting those “statements of faith”. And I’m very confident that if pre-COVID a student had come in wearing a mask (absent personal medical need) if the school didn’t just shrug it off, their stated reasons why he couldn’t would have had nothing to do with those “statements of faith”.