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Unable to accept visitors to their monastery in Timonium, the Carmelite Sisters have taken to sharing vesper services on Zoom, an online video teleconference platform. (Courtesy Carmelite Sisters)

Like everyone else, religious lean on tech in time of COVID-19

Mary K. Tilghman
May 12, 2020
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Until churches and schools reopen and people can gather again, however, technology is the next best way to connect, not just for laypeople, but those living in religious communities.

Mary Ford walks toward her husband, Kevin, as he inspects the soil quality of a garden bed in 2013 on their family farm in St. Leo, Kan. In an age of pandemic, Edward Herrera says families must strive to do things together, including outdoor activites. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

Wake up

Edward Herrera
May 11, 2020
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Now more than ever, we must deepen the relationships around us, which afford us an opportunity to encounter God anew.

The COVID-19 unit at UPMC Western Maryland, the major hospital serving Cumberland, includes Matt Greise, back row, second from left, an alumnus of Bishop Walsh School and assistant coach of the Spartans’ softball team, which provided Easter Sunday dinner for the unit. (Courtesy Bishop Walsh School)

Response grows to those out of work, on front lines during crisis

Paul McMullen
May 10, 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic has taken lives and strained healthcare workers. It has shuttered businesses, putting more in a hand-to-mouth existence and further burdening food banks and soup kitchens. Fortunately, many are doing something to stem those needs.

Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, council president of the Protestant Church in Germany, and Limburg Bishop Georg Batzing, president of the German bishops' conference, lead a service to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II at the Berlin cathedral May 8, 2020. (CNS photo/Christian Ditsch, epd pool via Reuters)

German church leaders recall end of WWII, urge commitment to peace

Catholic News Service
May 8, 2020
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In a joint service marking the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, Christian churches in Germany issued a call for a commitment to work for peace, reported the German Catholic news agency, KNA.

Auxiliary Bishop Joel M. Konzen of Atlanta, second from right who served as the administrator for the Archdiocese of Atlanta until an archbishop was appointed, extends the crosier to the seventh archbishop of Atlanta, Gregory J. Hartmayer, a Conventual Franciscan friar, at Cathedral of Christ the King May 6, 2020, during a Mass of Installation. (CNS photo/Michael Alexander, Georgia Bulletin)

Former principal of Archbishop Curley installed as Atlanta’s archbishop

Catholic News Service
May 8, 2020
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In the silence of the Cathedral of Christ the King, Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, a former principal of Archbishop Curley High School in Baltimore, was installed May 6 as leader of the 1.2 million Catholics in the Archdiocese of Atlanta.

Jaxson Amschler, then 18 months old, sits with his father, Joe Amschler, and his mother, Jenni Amschler, at their home in Kentucky. The couple adopted Jaxson through Adoption Bridges of Kentuckiana, a ministry of St. Elizabeth Catholic Charities in New Albany, Ind., in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. (CNS photo/Natalie Hoefer, The Criterion)

A new mom’s glimpse of the Father’s heart

Connie Poulos
May 7, 2020
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Every step, every milestone, no matter how small, is such a joy because I know what it took for my son to get there. Every smile and every hug are a gift, and I’m keenly aware of this since it did not come naturally at first.

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