Downtown Baltimore’s three major hospitals received Catholic blessings the morning of April 8.
While the coronavirus pandemic has proven challenging for schools and parents in educating children, it is also a chance for Catholic schools to confront those challenges with courage, said the Congregation for Catholic Education.
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.
Visits to the sick are taking new forms in the age of the coronavirus pandemic.
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).
Along comes a new opportunity to experience the Passion of Christ this Holy Week and Easter.
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.”
For Immediate Release Tuesday, April 7, 2020 On Wednesday, April 8, 2020 at 11 a.m., Archbishop William E. Lori and his two auxiliary bishops, Denis Madden and Adam Parker, will simultaneously conduct blessings at three Baltimore hospitals, asking God’s care and protection over those who work in healthcare facilities in Maryland and for all the […]
The death toll included at least two priests from the Archdiocese of Baltimore and two Religious Sisters of Mercy.
There’s an old saying: “Life is fragile. Handle with prayer.” I’m blessed to be alive.
Cardinal George Pell has been released from prison after 405 days behind bars after the seven judges of the High Court of Australia unanimously overturned the original December 2018 jury verdict that found him guilty on five counts of molesting two 13-year-old choirboys in 1996.
With people forced to stay home, even during Holy Week, because of the coronavirus pandemic, the archbishop of Turin has announced a special online exposition of the Shroud of Turin, which many believe is the burial cloth of Jesus.
