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Local News

March 30, 2020

Catholic senior living centers learn to adapt amid unprecedented precautions

Baltimore Catholic organizations who run senior housing such as Catholic Charities and Mercy Health Services have taken aggressive steps to keep their residents safe.

Tim Swift | Catholic Review

March 30, 2020

Baltimore Archdiocese schools, families using 3D printers to help produce face shields

Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore are stepping up to aid health care workers by helping to produce face shields desperately needed during the coronavirus pandemic.

Karen Sampson Hoffman

March 28, 2020

Archbishop Lori acknowledges difficulties during coronavirus crisis

Archbishop Lori discusses the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Christopher Gunty | Catholic Review

March 28, 2020

Baltimore native in Italy knows about life amid COVID-19 pandemic

“My concerns are that not everybody will be able to get 100 percent care and that many (more) will die,” said Castagna,

Brooke Mosca

March 26, 2020

Highlandtown parish heeds the call for much-needed medical supplies

Sacred Heart of Jesus is one of four churches in Baltimore acting as drop-off sites for the Baltimore Health Professionals Mutual Aid Cooperative

Tim Swift | Catholic Review

March 26, 2020

Ethicists, lawyers see dangers in rationing of scarce health resources

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.

Catholic News Service

Blogs & Commentary

Charity in Truth

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Forgive us our trespasses

Archbishop William E. Lori

Sin is a wound in the heart of an all-loving God. This should bring home to us the enormity and preciousness of God’s gift of mercy.

Amen

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A good and upright man

Christopher Gunty | Catholic Review

Joseph is a strong role model for someone who accepts the will of the Lord and lives it out.

Open Window

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A slice of apple cake a day to keep the quarantine blues away

Rita Buettner

Do you like to bake while in quarantine? Here is a recipe for a delicious apple cake.

Faces of Faith

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This church ‘go-getter’ inspires a new generation of volunteers

Tim Swift | Catholic Review

“You know that actions speak louder than words. And people can be a testimony to their faith just by what they do and not by what they say,” Hoban said.

Question Corner

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Church’s stance on organ donation/ Endorsing candidates

Father Kenneth Doyle

Father Doyle fields questions on the Church's stance on organ donation and endorsing candidates.

Word on Fire

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Anthony Hopkins portrays retired Pope Benedict XVI and Jonathan Pryce portrays Pope Francis in a scene from the movie "The Two Popes."

The One Pope

Bishop Robert Barron

I would have been happy to watch four hours of a film that was as honest and insightful about Joseph Ratzinger as it was about Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

The Domestic Church

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Pie plate connection

Rita Buettner

Small acts of kindness show how connected we are – and can be – in a world that sometimes feels so focused on individual happiness.

Guest Commentary

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I’ve been exposed to the coronavirus — I think

Chaz Muth

What I came to learn during my confinement is that you don't have to have symptoms to be a carrier of COVID-19 and spread it to others.

The Narthex

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‘God’s perfect plan’

George P. Matysek Jr. | Catholic Review

“We all cried big, floppy tears and sang with broken voices to try and tell him how much he was adored,” Jordan Tippett said.

Dust and Dewfall

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Start strong and show God

Father Collin Poston

Let us “start strong” and “show God” to the world and those around us, and give a demonstration of the unseen by being Christlike in our lives and in our love.

Baltimore Boomer

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Missing Coach Wootten, brothers Corrigan and others, but warmed by new life

Paul McMullen | Catholic Review

An unusually mild January nonetheless left me chilled, by too many deaths.

The Catholic Difference

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Flannery O’Connor and friends, revisited

George Weigel

At the end, that is the deepest impression her letters leave: here is a woman of extraordinary courage whose configuration of her life to the Cross was a source of both personal strength and literary genius.

Behind the Headlines

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Journey to the light

Christopher Gunty | Catholic Review

We don’t stop celebrating his birth just because the stores take down decorations and end the sales. We find the light in the manger and we trek to the Lord with all who seek him.

Our Back Pages

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Christmas past resonates for oldest pastor

Paul McMullen | Catholic Review

This year will mark Monsignor Burke's 40th Christmas at St. Francis of Assisi in Baltimore. He’ll celebrate the 5 p.m. Mass on Christmas Eve, and the 11:30 a.m. Mass on Christmas Day.

Snippets of FAith

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The man from Hershey

Suzanna Molino Singleton

Suzanna Molino Singleton finds inspiration in the man who championed outreach to Haiti in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Wit & Wisdom

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Limitless love

Father Joseph Breighner

When we believe that we are made of the “stuff” of God, then we have the power to co-create our world again in God’s likeness. Our time is limited. Our love is not.

Unconditional

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Bookstore Hero

Robyn Barberry

For the umpteenth millionth time, my mom saved the day.

Diamonds in the Rough

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‘You ain’t never had a friend like Him’

Father T. Austin Murphy Jr.

God is not a genie; but he is intimately fond of us. He would do anything for you – not because he is our slave, but because he is nothing but love.

World News

March 28, 2020

Vatican confirms pope does not have COVID-19

Neither Pope Francis nor any of his closest collaborators have the COVID-19 virus, said Matteo Bruni, director of the Vatican press office.

Cindy Wooden

March 27, 2020

COVID-19 is not God’s judgment, but a call to live differently, pope says

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.

Cindy Wooden

March 27, 2020

Pandemic casts spotlight on a nearly forgotten martyr: St. Corona

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.

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Videos

March 19, 2020

Stay firm in faith, seek St. Joseph’s intercession, pope says

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the daily lives and routines of millions of people have been turned upside down, Pope Francis said, but they must help each other stay firm in faith.

Cindy Wooden

March 15, 2020

Archbishop Lori leads Mass in ‘extraordinary times’ for coronavirus

If all the people watching the livestream of the 11 a.m. Mass March 15 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland had been in the cathedral itself, it would have been filled to capacity.

Christopher Gunty | Catholic Review