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.
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,...
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Sisters’ work during 1918 Spanish flu seen as model for crisis today
BALTIMORE (CNS) — Catholic nuns emerged as the unexpected heroes in the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic that killed hundreds of thousands in the United States and millions worldwide.
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.
