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Vatican authorizes special Masses and Good Friday prayers for coronavirus pandemic
The Vatican has asked priests around the world to recite a new prayer during this year’s Good Friday liturgy, and urged them to offer Masses for the end of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Congregation for Divine Worship issued the new intention...
By Hannah Brockhaus Rome has an abundance of beautiful churches, interesting relics, and sacred art. To wander the streets of the city’s historic center is to stumble upon something amazing. But...
On the afternoon of March 6, I walked around the campus of Franciscan University of Steubenville, saying goodbye to students as they headed off for Spring Break. On that cold afternoon, it was...
Good Friday Holy Land collection moved to September due to coronavirus
The Lenten Holy Land collection will be moved to September this year because of the suspension of public Masses in many places in the world due to the coronavirus, the Vatican stated Thursday.
The collection is usually taken up in churches...
Nicaraguan bishops cancel annual pilgrimage, but mayor reportedly goes ahead
Local media in Nicaragua are reporting that despite the nation’s bishops’ conference suspending Mass and prohibiting large gatherings, the mayor of Granada is going ahead with an annual pilgrimage that the bishops had canceled.
For more than...
China owes ‘apology and compensation’ for coronavirus, says cardinal
Poor countries are suffering from the coronavirus because of the Chinese Communist Party’s negligence and repression, a cardinal from Burma said Thursday.
“The Chinese regime led by the all-powerful Xi Jinping and the CCP — not its people —...
Recalling St John Paul II’s seven visits to the United States
St. John Paul II was the most traveled pope in history, logging some 700,000 miles and visiting nearly 130 countries.
One of the first countries the pope visited after his election was the United States. As Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, he had...
Pro-life leaders: N Ireland legal abortion thwarts protection for vulnerable
As the British Parliament's permissive abortion law takes effect in Northern Ireland, pro-life leaders strongly criticized the law, pointing to the coronavirus response as proof of the need to protect the lives of the most vulnerable.
“Every...
African cardinal tests positive for coronavirus as pandemic spreads across the continent
Cardinal Philippe Ouédraogo of Burkina Faso has tested positive for the coronavirus, his archdiocese announced Tuesday. He is the second cardinal known to have tested positive for the virus, which is now a global pandemic.
Ouédraogo, 75, has...
