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A medical worker in Stony Brook, N.Y., flashes the peace sign outside Stony Brook University Hospital April 8, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. She had participated in a "Caravan for Heroes" salute, an event that provided an opportunity for medical personnel and first responders to express their mutual support and appreciation for one another. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

From disaster, an Easter people rise

Carolyn Woo
April 9, 2020
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This plague has opened our hearts and minds to questions that we should have been asking all along: What is most important to us? Do we love well? What can we count on?

People at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington participate in the Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion March 1, 2020. (CNS photo/Mihoko Owada, Catholic Standard)

Disappointed, but hopeful, thousands unable to join church this Easter

Carol Zimmermann
April 9, 2020
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The disappointment of not being able to celebrate Easter Mass in churches across the country this year might be most strongly felt by the thousands who planned to join the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil.

The Washington-area public transit system would not allow this religious message from the Archdiocese of Washington to be displayed in subway cars and on buses, so the archdiocese filed a lawsuit in 2017. On April 6, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a lower court's ruling that the transit system's ban on religious advertising did not violate the First Amendment. (CNS illustration/Archdiocese of Washington via Catholic Standard)

Supreme Court declines review of case involving Washington Archdiocese ad

Mark Zimmerman
April 9, 2020
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The Archdiocese of Washington expressed disappointment that the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a federal appeals court ruling that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s prohibition of religious advertising did not violate the First Amendment.

Bishops attend a Nov. 11, 2019, session during the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has canceled the spring general assembly that was planned for June 10-12 in Detroit. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)

USCCB Administrative Committee cancels U.S. bishops’ June assembly

Catholic News Service
April 9, 2020
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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has canceled the U.S. bishops’ spring general assembly that was planned for June 10-12 in Detroit.

Young Adult Ministry

Archdiocese of Baltimore
April 8, 2020

Young Adult Ministry continues to meet online through the outreach of various parishes and organizations during the COVID-19 lockdown. The Archdiocese of Baltimore supports ministry with young adults, in their late teens, twenties, and thirties in every pastorate and college campus community utilizing the unique charisms and strengths of each pastorate to reach young adults […]

Pope Francis accepts offertory gifts from indigenous people as he celebrates the concluding Mass of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon at the Vatican in this Oct. 27, 2019, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Pope sets up new commission to study women deacons

Cindy Wooden
April 8, 2020
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Pope Francis has established a new “Study Commission on the Female Diaconate” as a follow-up to a previous group that studied the history of women deacons in the New Testament and the early Christian communities.

“I’m glad I volunteered,” said George Adams, a former Marine captain who saw combat during the Vietnam War. Adams has taken that same spirt to the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson as an extraordinary minister of holy Communion. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

From a distance: Ministering to the ill among coronavirus challenges

Paul McMullen
April 8, 2020
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Visits to the sick are taking new forms in the age of the coronavirus pandemic.

Franciscans from five convents in northeastern Brazil produced a video with one message: "Fique em Casa" (Stay Home). (CNS screen grab)

Franciscans in Brazil use frevo music in video urging people to stay home

Lise Alves
April 7, 2020
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To the soundtrack of the official hymn of Recife’s Galo da Madrugada, said to be the largest carnival block in the world, Franciscans from five convents in northeastern Brazil dance to a typical Brazilian rhythm known as the frevo with one request: “Fique em Casa” (Stay Home).

Archbishop William E. Lori addresses the media April 7 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore. (Kevin J. Parks/ CR Staff)

As churches stay closed, Archbishop Lori wants people to ‘celebrate many more Easters’

Christopher Gunty
April 7, 2020
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Archbishop William E. Lori said he wants nothing more than to open wide the doors to churches in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, but that the church has to recognize “the massive public health threat we are facing.”

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