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.
Nonprofits continue food, vital services amid coronavirus concerns
Their methods have changed but their servant's heart remains unwavered.
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.
Forty years after St. Romero’s martyrdom, El Salvador sees a harvest of martyrs
Soon-to-be Blessed Rutilio Grande and companions
March 12, 1977: MartyredAug. 16, 2016: Local canonization process ceremonially closedFeb. 22, 2020: Martyrdom formally recognized
Fr. Rutilio Grande, SJJuly 5, 1928: BornJuly 30,...
As people are ordered to stay home, pope calls for help for homeless
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — As national and local governments have been issuing stay-at-home or shelter-in-place orders to curb the spread of the coronavirus, Pope Francis asked people to pray for and assist those who are homeless.
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.
