Texas Catholic family’s quarantine dancing video goes viral
HOUSTON (CNS) — When health officials recommended self-isolation to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Ali Hoffman and her parents, Michael and Michele, found themselves quarantined in their Fort Worth-area home.
Via phone, priest helps dying man through act of contrition, prayer
The phone was his lifeline, literally, to the sacrament of reconciliation.
Priority on economy over people may lead to ‘viral genocide,’ pope warns
Some governments that have imposed lockdown measures "show the priority of their decisions: people first."
During pandemic, priests work to bridge distance between deceased, family
The ministers are also offering blessings and a dignified temporary place of rest before the departed's ultimate burial.
Accurate count enables local Church to carry out mission
Participation in the U.S. Census is not only constitutional, it’s biblical. St. Luke makes note of this when describing the birth of Jesus.
Pandemic casts spotlight on a nearly forgotten martyr: St. Corona
BONN, Germany (CNS) — She had become nearly forgotten. Little is known about the young woman who was killed for her Christian faith, presumably in the second century A.D. But now, a pandemic is shedding light on her: St. Corona.
COVID-19 is not God’s judgment, but a call to live differently, pope says
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The worldwide coronavirus pandemic is not God’s judgment on humanity, but God’s call on people to judge what is most important to them and resolve to act accordingly from now on, Pope Francis said.
Ethicists, lawyers see dangers in rationing of scarce health resources
BALTIMORE (CNS) — Catholic ethicists and legal experts are sounding the alarm that the scarcity of resources such as ventilators and hospital beds during the current coronavirus pandemic could prompt health care decisions based only on age and disability — and in some cases already is.
What is a plenary indulgence?
Note: it's not a quick ticket to heaven, but an aid for real conversion that leads to eternal happiness.
Using the lockdown for good: CUA professor shares his family’s experience
ROME (CNS) — Looking on the “bright side” or seeking the “silver lining” of something like a lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus is not naivete, but an exercise of one’s God-given will, said a U.S. professor locked down in Rome with his wife and son.
