Tag: COVID-19
CARES Act expected to offer emergency aid to Catholic agencies
CLEVELAND -- Catholic hospitals, parish schools and charitable agencies are among the entities hoping to receive partial relief under a massive $2.2 trillion emergency...
Diocese of Brooklyn, N.Y., reports a parishioner has died of COVID-19
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — The Diocese of Brooklyn announced March 25 that an elderly parishioner from Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Jamaica...
Pope Francis, global Christian leaders join in prayer for COVID-19 pandemic’s...
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CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield ‘not shy about his Catholic faith,’...
BALTIMORE -- When Msgr. Richard Woy sees Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on television these days...
Pope Francis makes mini-pilgrimage outside Vatican to pray for end of...
ROME — With Italy on lockdown and Rome streets almost deserted, Pope Francis left the Vatican March 15 in a mini-pilgrimage to an icon...
Catholic schools to close for two weeks, extracurriculars canceled as Diocese...
Schools in the Diocese of Wilmington will be closed through March 27 as the effects of the coronavirus pandemic spread throughout the state and...
High mortality rate means Italian churches, chaplains, nuns have unexpected role...
ROME — In a nation where the faithful are not allowed to assemble for Mass, one church in northern Italy is full.
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Pope Francis leads ‘virtual’ Angelus to avoid the risk of spreading...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis did not recite the Sunday Angelus from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square March 8, but...