Tag: pandemic
Sister Keehan: Coronavirus so much more serious and devastating because of...
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed how unprepared the world is -- even wealthy, technologically advanced nations -- to work together to stop an urgent...
How families can celebrate this Easter, even with COVID restrictions
Last year, many of us had a new experience when we were faced with celebrating Easter Sunday in the midst of a pandemic. On...
Italy sees worst gap between births, deaths since 1918 Spanish flu...
ROME -- With Italy already facing a diminishing population, low birth rates and fewer religious and civil marriages, the COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted those...
Bishop DiMarzio recalls life of first U.S. priest Father Jorge Ortiz-Garay...
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...
Catholic leaders ask CDC for extension of eviction moratorium beyond March...
CLEVELAND -- Leaders from three national Catholic organizations want the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's current eviction moratorium to continue for the duration...
U.S. District Court strikes down District of Columbia’s pandemic limits on...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in a March 25 ruling struck down the District of Columbia's COVID-19 pandemic...
It’s perfectly fine to struggle, we know that we can lean...
Right above my desk, hanging on the wall with a crumpled piece of Scotch tape, is a card someone gave me last March.
"You are...
General absolution is permissible during pandemic, Vatican says
VATICAN CITY — Offering general absolution to the faithful without having them personally confess their sins first may still be done in places seeing...
Emotional, psychological and physical trauma of coronavirus pandemic beginning to be...
WASHINGTON -- The psychological and emotional trauma of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is only now beginning to be felt, and is bound to keep...
Pope Francis: There is no pandemic, there is no crisis that...
VATICAN CITY -- No pandemic and no kind of crisis can extinguish the light of Christ, Pope Francis said.
May people let his light into...