Churches, chaplains, nuns have unexpected role in COVID-19 crisis
From housing coffins to visiting hospital patients to ministering to doctors, the Church is in the field hospital of the coronavirus.
USCCB president offers reflection, prayer in this time of the coronavirus
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Acknowledging the fragility of human life because of the coronavirus, Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, shared a prayer for people who are ill with COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, and those responding to the pandemic.
Deacon-physician says everyone can help limit spread of virus
They're commonsense measures that bear repeating though this Q-&-A offers additional insight for faith-based people.
Walking with ‘suffering Christ’ means standing with victims, says priest
The priest, who is a licensed psychologist and psychotherapist, said the Church is good at standing with the vulnerable, and that should include its own victims.
Pandemic a time of understanding value of brotherhood, cardinal says
Like any other emergency situation, the challenges facing countries trying to contain the virus also "highlight more clearly the serious inequalities that characterize our socioeconomic systems," the cardinal said.
How Italy went from ‘wash your hands’ to ‘stay at home’
Two days after "Patient One" tested positive for COVID-19, the number of positives grew exponentially with safety precautions now changing almost daily.
Make prayer part of your hand-washing to fight virus, says diocese
Coronavirus protocols in the nation's nearly country's 200 archdioceses and dioceses are now common.
Pope entrusts world threatened by coronavirus pandemic to Mary
The papal vicar of Rome echoed the pope's prayer saying, "The antidote, the therapy for the anguish of the present moment is to entrust yourselves to God's hands... no one can tear us away from him."
New center at border called ‘model’ for how migrants should be treated
NOGALES, Sonora, Mexico (CNS) — Through many “ups and downs,” God “has led us to this day,” said Jesuit Father Sean Carroll, head of Kino Border Initiative, at the official blessing of a new 18,000-square-foot facility at the international border in Nogales.
Prayer is efficacious, say pro-life leaders as annual prayer campaign begins
An international prayer effort aimed at ending abortion has kicked off again in the Phoenix Diocese. The 40 Days for Life Lenten prayer campaign got underway Feb. 23 in Glendale, Phoenix Flagstaff and Tempe.
