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Doris Hollis watches from a window in Caritas House as her family visits her for her 94th birthday on March 27. Baltimore area senior centers have taken aggressive steps to keep their residents safe from COVID-19. (Courtesy Caritas House)

Catholic senior living centers learn to adapt amid unprecedented precautions

Tim Swift
March 30, 2020
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Baltimore Catholic organizations who run senior housing such as Catholic Charities and Mercy Health Services have taken aggressive steps to keep their residents safe.

As of March 30, approximately 25 faculty and students from eight Catholics schools were using the schools’ 3D printers to assist in the production of face shields. (Courtesy Joseph Oleszcuk)

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

Karen Sampson Hoffman
March 30, 2020
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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.

Pope Francis celebrates Mass in the chapel of his Vatican residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae, March 26, 2020. About a dozen priests also live in the Vatican guesthouse, and news reports March 25 said one of them, an Italian monsignor working in the Vatican Secretariat of State, had tested positive for COVID-19. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Vatican confirms pope does not have COVID-19

Cindy Wooden
March 28, 2020
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Neither Pope Francis nor any of his closest collaborators have the COVID-19 virus, said Matteo Bruni, director of the Vatican press office.

A woman prays with a rosary from the window of her home in Grosseto, Italy, March 25, 2020. Joined by Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant church leaders and faithful from around the world that day, Pope Francis led the recitation of the Lord's Prayer, imploring God's mercy on humanity amid the coronavirus pandemic. (CNS photo/Jennifer Lorenzini, Reuters)

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

Brooke Mosca
March 28, 2020
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“My concerns are that not everybody will be able to get 100 percent care and that many (more) will die,” said Castagna,

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