Tag: coronavirus

THRISSUR, India -- Catholic hospital directors in India told Catholic News Service they did not have enough facilities to treat patients as India set...

VATICAN CITY  -- Celebrating his name day, the feast of St. George, Pope Francis was serenaded by hundreds of Rome's most vulnerable residents and...

"The Lord is risen!" This is our cry during the 50 days of Easter. We celebrate life with joy: our present historical life and...

The coronavirus pandemic has exposed how unprepared the world is -- even wealthy, technologically advanced nations -- to work together to stop an urgent...

WASHINGTON — No one has to tell Catholic school teachers how different this past year has been. At the start of the pandemic last spring,...

VATICAN CITY — After what feels like “a truly trying Lent of 400-plus days” because of the coronavirus pandemic, Christians need to “envisage and...

WASHINGTON -- On World Health Day, April 7, a new group of 31 U.S. Catholic organizations encouraged people to get the COVID-19 vaccine as...

Last year, many of us had a new experience when we were faced with celebrating Easter Sunday in the midst of a pandemic. On...

ROME  -- With Italy already facing a diminishing population, low birth rates and fewer religious and civil marriages, the COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted those...

BROOKLYN, N.Y.  -- Father Jorge Ortiz-Garay of Brooklyn, the first U.S. priest to die from complications of COVID-19, was recalled as "a good and...