Tag: COVID-19
Religious ed programs must plan ways to teach amid pandemic
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Just like schools, parish religious education programs have been forced to figure out how to provide instruction in the midst of...
Kenyan rural parishioners have responded to call for help during COVID-19...
NAIROBI, Kenya -- In the collection baskets, priests in rural Kenya have been counting a dollar or two or even five, which congregations have...
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Find comfort in the Gospel during...
Sunday Scripture readings, Aug. 9, 2020: Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
1) 1 Kgs 19:9, 11-13
Psalm 85:9, 10-14
2) Rom 9:1-5
Gospel: Mt 14:22-33
Find comfort in the...
‘It spreads so fast;’ Coronavirus hits 15 members of one Iowa...
DAVENPORT, Iowa -- As Alicia Nava flipped through family photographs the morning of July 25, she said solemnly from behind a floral print mask,...
St. Mary Star of the Sea holds COVID-safe ‘Very Best Singalong’...
Children and their families gathered at the St. Mary Star of the Sea Church parking lot in Ocean City, Md. on the evening of...
Dr. Anthony Fauci tells students COVID-19 a ‘pandemic of historic proportion,’...
PHOENIX -- There is no denying the fact "this is a pandemic of historic proportion," Dr. Anthony Fauci told students at Jesuit-run Georgetown University...
Addressing worldwide hunger crisis priority for Catholic Relief Services during coronavirus...
WASHINGTON -- As the coronavirus pandemic commands global attention, for those working at organizations such as Catholic Relief Services, the health crisis is one...
Mask-wearing varies dramatically in parishes across Minnesota archdiocese
PAUL, Minn. -- Mask-wearing is something Astrid Liden says she feels "extremely" passionate about.
A cantor at St. Therese in the Minneapolis suburb of Deephaven,...
Extraordinary times in Ordinary Time: Public Masses amid a pandemic
WASHINGTON -- To resume public Masses during the coronavirus pandemic, dioceses have issued guidelines to be followed by parishes. The Archdiocese of Washington's series...
Freedom should support the common good: Father Eugene Hemrick
"Mandating face masks is unconstitutional and an affront to my freedom." Despite the scientific wisdom of this mandate, some citizens vociferously reject it.
In the...