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Women use sanitizer to clean their hands to help prevent the outbreak of coronavirus following Mass at Holy Family Basilica in Nairobi, Kenya, March 15, 2020. (CNS photo/Njeri Mwangi, Reuters)

Pandemic can be time to rediscover love, kindness, pope says

Carol Glatz
March 18, 2020
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People must use this time of the coronavirus pandemic to rediscover the importance of small, concrete gestures of affection and care toward others, Pope Francis said in a new interview.

An air plane in Frankfort, Germany takes off March 16, 2020. Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, said March 17 that the effects of the coronavirus can be defeated only with a combination of science and solidarity. (CNS photo/Kai Pfaffenbach, Reuters)

Science-solidarity combo needed to stop pandemic, says Vatican official

Cindy Wooden
March 17, 2020
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The effects of the coronavirus can be defeated only with a combination of science and solidarity, said the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life.

A resident of Mount Carmel Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in Manchester, N.H., is shown speaking with a member of the staff in this recent photo. Officials at this Catholic nursing home and others around the U.S. are responding to the coronavirus pandemic with restrictions for elderly residents. (CNS photo/courtesy Mt. Carmel Rehabilitation & Nursing Center)

Our Christian calling and social distancing

Elise Italiano Ureneck
March 17, 2020
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The global phenomenon of imposed isolation provides an important moment to call to mind the many people who experience “social distancing” as a daily, lived reality — most often not of their choosing.

Pope Francis celebrates Mass March 16, 2020, in the chapel of his Vatican residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae. At the beginning of the liturgy, the pope prayed for families who are cooped up in their homes and for all those who are ill with COVID-19. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope prays family relationships thrive while stuck at home

Carol Glatz
March 16, 2020
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Pope Francis prayed for families who are cooped up in their homes and for all those who are ill with COVID-19.

Archbishop Paul D. Etienne of Seattle, center, and other prelates pray during the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore Nov. 12, 2019. The third-party reporting system to record abuse complaints against bishops, approved in November, has officially begun. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)

Reporting system to record abuse complaints against bishops begins

Dennis Sadowski
March 16, 2020
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A reporting system accepting sexual misconduct allegations against U.S. bishops and eparchs is in place.

Pope Francis prays in front of a crucifix at the Church of St. Marcellus in Rome March 15, 2020. The crucifix was carried through Rome in 1522 during the "Great Plague." The pope prayed as coronavirus deaths in Italy peaked at 368 in a 24-hour period, bringing the total number of deaths to 1,809 out of 24,747 cases. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope makes mini-pilgrimage outside Vatican to pray for end of pandemic

Cindy Wooden
March 16, 2020
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With Italy on lockdown and Rome streets almost deserted, Pope Francis left the Vatican March 15 in a mini-pilgrimage to an icon and to a crucifix associated with miraculous interventions to save the city and its people.

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