Adoration remains reality for most churches, despite Eucharistic fast
With the suspension of public Masses throughout the Diocese of Phoenix, the Church has more “adoring” fans now than ever. With faithful unable to receive Holy Communion, one pastor brought Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament to their homes.
Pope on Palm Sunday: Life, measured by love, is meant to serve others
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — With a small procession down the vast and empty central nave of St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis began the first of a series of Holy Week liturgies celebrated without the presence of the faithful from the general public.
Pope encourages Catholics to contemplate ‘seven sorrows’ of Mary
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — On the Friday before Holy Week, Pope Francis asked people to keep a long tradition of Catholic piety by focusing on “the suffering and sorrows of Our Lady.”
Pope sends video message ahead of Holy Week
He prays especially for those suffering and for all the families whose lives have been upset in this difficult time.
USCCB president calls for national moment of prayer on Good Friday
WASHINGTON — Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has invited U.S. Catholics to join him on Good Friday, April 10, to pray the Litany of the Sacred Heart at noon (EDT), 9 a.m. (Arizona Time).
Student Knights from Tennessee bring peers together for virtual fish fry using Zoom
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CNS) — The university students who belong to the Knights of Columbus council at the intercollegiate University Catholic ministry in the Diocese of Nashville decided that if their fellow students couldn’t come to their Lenten fish fry, they would bring the fish fry to them.
Site crashes as half million-plus watch England’s rededication to Mary
WALSINGHAM, England (CNS) — English Catholics rededicated their country as Mary’s Dowry “in the eye of the storm” of the coronavirus pandemic.
Brooklyn priest who died from virus called ‘great missionary among us’
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (CNS) — Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn March 28 announced the death of Fr. Jorge Ortiz-Garay, 49, who died the evening before from COVID-19.
Flush the lies from one’s heart to see God, pope says at audience
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Seeing and growing closer to God require purifying one’s heart from the sins and prejudices that distort reality and blind people to God’s active and real presence, Pope Francis said.
Antoinette Bosco, retired CNS columnist, death penalty opponent, dies at 91
The mother of seven, including a homeless boy she adopted, wrote for the Catholic news wire for 37 years and other secular publications.
