Mar 27, 2020 | Coronavirus, US & World
By Catholic News Service BROOKLYN, N.Y. (CNS) — The Diocese of Brooklyn announced March 25 that an elderly parishioner from Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Jamaica in the New York borough of Queens has died of COVID-19. “Our hearts and...
Mar 26, 2020 | Coronavirus, US & World
By Catholic News Service BONN, Germany (CNS) — She had become nearly forgotten. Little is known about the young woman who was killed for her Christian faith, presumably in the second century A.D. But now, a pandemic is shedding light on her: St. Corona. The...
Mar 26, 2020 | Coronavirus, Pope Francis & Vatican
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A 58-year-old Italian monsignor, who works in the Vatican Secretariat of State and lives in the Domus Sanctae Marthae, where Pope Francis lives, has tested positive for COVID-19 and has been...
Mar 26, 2020 | Coronavirus, Pope Francis & Vatican
By Carol Glatz | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis said he will grant a plenary indulgence to the faithful who watch or listen to his extraordinary blessing “urbi et orbi” (to the city and the world) at 6 p.m. Rome time March...
Mar 26, 2020 | Coronavirus, Pope Francis & Vatican
By Junno Arocho Esteves | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis offered his early morning Mass for vulnerable people and health care workers who live in fear that they or their loved ones may fall ill to the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the...
Mar 26, 2020 | Coronavirus, US & World
By James Ramos | Catholic News Service HOUSTON (CNS) — When health officials recommended self-isolation to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Ali Hoffman and her parents, Michael and Michele, found themselves quarantined in their Fort Worth-area home. In their...
Mar 26, 2020 | Coronavirus, US & World
By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — The website of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has created a special link on its website to a page offering various resources for the nation’s Catholics as they weather the ongoing coronavirus pandemic....
Mar 26, 2020 | Coronavirus, US & World
By Carol Glatz | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Doctors working in the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy have launched an appeal in a major medical journal warning the outbreak in their province is out of control. The medical and...
Mar 26, 2020 | Coronavirus, US & World
By Jonathan Luxmoore | Catholic News Service OXFORD, England (CNS) — Catholic aid agencies have urged the evacuation of Syrian war refugees from camps in Greece to “avert a catastrophe” from the coronavirus. “More than 42,000 people are trapped...
Mar 26, 2020 | Coronavirus, US & World
By Patricia L. Guilfoyle | Catholic News Service CHARLOTTE, N.C. (CNS) — It was supposed to be Laetare Sunday — a day of joy in the midst of Lent. But that joy took on a different meaning March 22, as Catholics across western North Carolina lived through...
Mar 26, 2020 | Coronavirus, US & World
By Abby Belt | Catholic News Service GROS MORNE, Haiti (CNS) — In mid-March, Haiti reported its first five official cases of COVID–19, and we are now moving toward a full-on lockdown. No one is allowed in or out of this country unless they are transporting...
Mar 25, 2020 | Coronavirus, US & World
By Ed Langlois | Catholic News Service PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS) — Because of hospital coronavirus restrictions, a suburban Portland priest March 22 was not allowed to meet with a Catholic patient dying of COVID-19. Msgr. John Cihak, pastor of Christ the King Parish...
Mar 25, 2020 | Coronavirus, US & World
By Michelle Martin | Catholic News Service CHICAGO (CNS) — The COVID-19 pandemic has caused financial disruptions not only to households and businesses, but also to local parishes, who have suspended public Masses at which they can take up offertory collections....
Mar 25, 2020 | Coronavirus, Pope Francis & Vatican
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican has asked Catholic bishops around the world, both in the Latin rite and the Eastern Catholic Churches, to provide their faithful with resources to support personal and family prayer during...
Mar 25, 2020 | Coronavirus, US & World
By Philippe Vaillancourt | Catholic News Service QUEBEC CITY (CNS) — As the Quebec government tightens measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and allows only essential services, the Catholic dioceses of the province have started temporary layoffs affecting...
Mar 25, 2020 | Coronavirus, US & World
By Emily Drooby | Catholic News Service BROOKLYN, N.Y. (CNS) — It was a scene of hope and humanity as boxes and boxes of medical equipment at St. John’s University were packed up and driven over to New York-Presbyterian Queens hospital. The New York...
Mar 25, 2020 | Coronavirus, US & World
By Barbara Fraser | Catholic News Service LIMA, Peru (CNS) — On day nine of the state of emergency that Peru imposed to stop the spread of the coronavirus, Antonio Palomino Quispe got home just after the nightly curfew began. He had been delivering food baskets...
Mar 25, 2020 | Coronavirus, US & World
By Nancy McNally | Catholic News Service ROME (CNS) — “School was just canceled,” I said to my kids March 4. Dario, 15, and Adriana, 14, were jumping for joy in our living room, which is still a bit of a shambles since we only moved back to Rome in...
Mar 25, 2020 | Coronavirus, US & World
By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — When U.S. dioceses first announced they were not offering public Masses in an effort to curb the coronavirus, many dioceses promoted TV Masses broadcast in their areas or arranged to tape their own...
Mar 25, 2020 | Coronavirus, US & World
By Chaz Muth | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — As people throughout the U.S. self-isolate and retreat from daily life amid the COVID-19 pandemic, priests and women religious have become beacons of hope globally as they mobilize in unconventional ways....
Mar 25, 2020 | Coronavirus, Pope Francis & Vatican
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Early in the morning, in the chapel of his residence, Pope Francis celebrated Mass for the feast of the Annunciation and paid tribute to women religious, especially those caring for the sick during...
Mar 25, 2020 | Coronavirus, US & World
By Ana Franco-Guzman | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — As I approached each of these individuals to interview them at my nearby Giant, standing the now-standard 6 feet apart while we talked, the reality of this pandemic seeped in for each one of us. A...
Mar 25, 2020 | Coronavirus, Pope Francis & Vatican
By Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Joined by Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant church leaders and faithful from around the world, Pope Francis led the recitation of the Lord’s Prayer, imploring God’s mercy on humanity amid...
Mar 25, 2020 | Coronavirus, US & World
By Junno Arocho Esteves | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Defending life is not an abstract concept but a duty for all Christians and it means protecting the unborn, the poor, the sick, the unemployed and migrants, Pope Francis said. Even though...
Mar 25, 2020 | Coronavirus, US & World
By Mark Pattison | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — Here is the church, and here is the steeple; Father says Mass, but where are the people? Imagine if you gave a Mass and nobody came. That’s an emerging reality for priests as the phenomenon of...
Mar 25, 2020 | Coronavirus, Local
By Renée K. Gadoua | Contributing writer, and Katherine Long | Editor Le Moyne College President Linda LeMura likely speaks for many people frustrated at the dramatic disruptions the novel coronavirus pandemic is causing to secular and spiritual activities. In a...
Mar 25, 2020 | Coronavirus, Local
March 20, 2020 Dear Brother Priests, Deacons, and all members of the faithful who are part of our Diocesan Family, Peace be with you! This is my second letter to you during this time of national and worldwide emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic. First, allow me to...
Mar 25, 2020 | Coronavirus, Local
By Tom Maguire |Associate editor Area medical professionals are working long hours under difficult circumstances, innovating, and advising patients to stay calm amid the coronavirus pandemic. “It’s very difficult because we’re trying to do a lot of the work over the...
Mar 24, 2020 | Coronavirus, US & World
By Junno Arocho Esteves | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — As more countries continue to take precautions to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the term “lockdown,” normally used to describe confining prisoners to their cells, has taken...
Mar 24, 2020 | Coronavirus, Pope Francis & Vatican
By Carol Glatz | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — With the number of priests and religious dying from coronavirus-related illnesses rising, Pope Francis offered his prayers for those who died after being infected helping COVID-19 patients and their...
