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A thank you in the sky (and a prayer for our healthcare heroes)

May 2, 2020

Gov. Larry Hogan had declared Saturday Healthcare Heroes Day, and the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds would be flying over as a thank you to those serving on the front lines in the pandemic.

Pope Francis celebrates Mass April 29, 2020, in the chapel of his Vatican residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

The quarantine’s three lessons about the Church

Bishop Robert Barron

May 1, 2020

Commentary, Coronavirus, Word on Fire

So Catholics, don’t get discouraged. Rather, use this time of deprivation and abstention to awaken a deeper love for the Church in its Eucharistic, symbiotic, and incarnational distinctiveness.

Online Masses in for people who are blind

Archdiocese of Baltimore

May 1, 2020

Uncategorized

Masses for people who are blind: Xavier Society for the Blind continues to provide the Propers of the Sunday Mass (the readings, responses and prayers to the Mass on Sunday and special Feast Days) in large print, Braille Ready File (.brf), and audio for download from their website. – St. Francis Xavier Church in New […]

Sugar-cube spill, home fashion, the gift of ramen, and more (7 Quick Takes)

Rita Buettner

May 1, 2020

Blog, Open Window

Some days you’re trying to get something done when you hear a terrible crash in the kitchen. You come running and see that your son just spilled sugar cubes all over the floor.

Seminarian Maurice Afor distributes treats to children at Sacred Heart Church in Glyndon during an Easter Sunday food distribution outreach to more than 1,000 families economically impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

For seminarians, campus may be closed but the work continues at local parishes

Tim Swift

May 1, 2020

#IamCatholic, Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News, Vocations

Since mid-March, the 51 men studying to become priests for the Archdiocese of Baltimore have left their classrooms and been placed in parishes across the region.

A painting of the Assumption adorns the inner dome of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore. (CR file)

Click here to watch Archbishop Lori offer 3 p.m. prayers consecrating the nation to Mary, Mother of the Church

Archdiocese of Baltimore

May 1, 2020

Uncategorized

Press play above to watch Archbishop William E. Lori offer prayers to renew the consecration of our nation to Mary, under the title “Mother of the Church.”

Every Catholic man should do this once

Hanael Bianchi

April 30, 2020

Blog, Fertile Soil

I completed the Exodus program this Easter as part of a fraternity at St. John Parish in Westminster. It changed my life.

Faithful pray June 2, 2019, at St. John the Apostle Church in Virginia Beach, Va. (CNS photo/Deborah Cox, The Catholic Virginian)

Few sermons mention abortion in U.S. Christianity, Pew finds

Mark Pattison

April 30, 2020

News, Respect Life, World News

The percentage of sermons about abortion is in the single digits, according to a Pew Research Center study, the results of which were released April 29.

A dark and empty St. Margaret Church in Bel Air can be seen from the side entrance of the Harford County parish April 30. The Archdiocese of Baltimore is developing a plan to reopen parishes safely. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Archdiocese of Baltimore develops plans for reopening

George P. Matysek Jr.

April 30, 2020

Archbishop's Ministry, Coronavirus, Local News, News, Uncategorized

Anticipating the day when the functions of the church can be reopened to the public in a gradual way that protects the health of the general population, leaders of the Archdiocese of Baltimore are developing post-quarantine guidelines and protocols regarding liturgy, the sacraments and related concerns.

Healthcare workers supporting the COVID-19 field hospital at the Baltimore Convention Center listen to Archbishop William E. Lori and other interfaith leaders offer blessings at the downtown site April 20. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Hundreds of prayers pour into the archdiocese, offering a window into the pandemic

Tim Swift

April 30, 2020

#IamCatholic, Archbishop's Ministry, Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News

As the coronavirus pandemic paralyzed the country and filled hospitals with patients, hundreds of people in the Archdiocese of Baltimore have asked Archbishop William E. Lori to pray for them through a new prayer request page launched March 25 on the archdiocesan website.

A vial of the COVID-19 vaccine candidate to be used in the Phase 1 clinical trial is displayed at the Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility in Oxford, England, April 2, 2020. (CNS photo/Sean Elias, handout via Reuters) See COVID-ANSCOMBE-VACCINE April 29, 2020.

Catholic bioethicist: COVID-19 vaccine could be question of conscience

Simon Caldwell

April 30, 2020

Coronavirus, News, World News

There is “no absolute duty” to boycott any COVID-19 vaccine produced with the help of cells derived from aborted fetuses, said a researcher from a Catholic bioethics institute.

This is a still from the "Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story," a film by Martin Doblmeier. (CNS photo/courtesy Journey Films)

Sainthood cause for Dorothy Day picking up steam in U.S.

Mark Pattison

April 29, 2020

Feature, News, World News

The sainthood cause for Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, believes it could have all of the documentation prepared at some point next year to send to the Vatican Congregation for Saints’ Causes.

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