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Deacon Willard Witherspoon distributes Communion during a 2016 Mass at St. Peter Claver Church in Baltimore. Those unable to partake of the Blessed Sacrament are encouraged to make an act of "spiritual communion." (CNS photo/Bob Roller)

Spiritual communion helps connect Catholics to Christ

George P. Matysek Jr.
April 2, 2020
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“It’s a sincere prayer saying that you believe that Jesus is present in the holy sacrament,” Father Poston explained, “and you desire to receive him and love him. But since you can’t, you invite Jesus to come into your heart and soul and be with you.”

St. John Paul II greets throngs of Poles waiting for a glimpse of their native son at the monastery of Jasna Gora in Czestochowa during his 1979 trip to Poland. April 2, 2020, is the 15th anniversary of the pope's death in 2005. (CNS photo/Chris Niedenthal)

St. John Paul showed how to face suffering by embracing God, Mary

Carol Glatz
April 2, 2020
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Remembering St. John Paul II and the 15th anniversary of his death, Pope Francis encouraged people to pray for his intercession and trust in Divine Mercy, especially during these “difficult days” of the coronavirus pandemic.

Palm Sunday liturgy, shown at Our Lady of Victory in Arbutus last year, is among those that will be shared online in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. (CR file)

Fear itself

Archbishop William E. Lori
April 2, 2020
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So often in Scripture Jesus says to his followers and to us, “Be not afraid.” He’s not asking us to ignore our problems or neglect our loved ones or deny our feelings. He is inviting us to rise above our feelings of fear, to encounter the greatness and glory of God, and in a spirit of humility and contrition to open our hearts to him, perhaps as never before.

A chalice is seen at a Catholic church in Bangkok Nov. 12, 2019, ahead of Pope Francis' visit. The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments has approved a special "Mass in the Time of Pandemic" during the COVID-19 crisis. (CNS photo/Soe Zeya Tun, Reuters)

Vatican approves special ‘Mass in the Time of Pandemic’

Cindy Wooden
April 2, 2020
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The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments has approved a special “Mass in the Time of Pandemic” to plead for God’s mercy and gift of strength in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

Archbishop Leonard P. Blair of Hartford, Conn., chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Divine Worship, gives the homily as he concelebrates Mass with other U.S. bishops from the New England states at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome Nov. 4, 2019. He has advised U.S. bishops that administering the sacrament of reconciliation via cellphone is impermissible under church teaching. The issue has been in the spotlight as priests try to minister to the sick and dying in hospitals but cannot visit them amid the pandemic. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Archbishop Blair advises cellphones cannot be used to administer sacraments

Catholic News Service
April 1, 2020
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Administering the sacrament of reconciliation via cellphone is impermissible under church teaching, said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Divine Worship.

Tiffany Vega-Gibson is pictured not long before becoming ill with the coronavirus. (Tiffany Vega-Gibson)

No one is invincible: An unlikely coronavirus victim shares her story of struggle and survival

Robyn Barberry
April 1, 2020
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So many Americans believe that only the elderly and the immunocompromised are capable of contracting and becoming gravely ill from Covid-19.  I, too, believed I was invincible until I saw a social media post written by a high school classmate, Tiffany Vega-Gibson.

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