The new coronavirus has claimed the Pittsburgh Catholic newspaper as a victim.
Often it doesn’t matter what you decide to do for Lent. Sometimes your Lenten journey finds you. So, here we are.
With the number of priests and religious dying from coronavirus-related illnesses rising, Pope Francis offered his prayers for those who died after being infected helping COVID-19 patients and their communities.
As more countries continue to take precautions to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the term “lockdown,” normally used to describe confining prisoners to their cells, has taken on a whole new meaning.
Our younger son hurried into the room holding a water glass full of forsythia he had cut from the bushes in our yard.
As residents looked on in curiosity from their porches and windows in the Joseph Lee/Bayside neighborhood of East Baltimore March 13, a column of color and solemn music split the abandoned streets.
Taking stock of the Maryland General Assembly’s abbreviated 2020 Legislative Session, Jenny Kraska pointed not to wins and losses but to the novel dynamic imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, which shortened the session.
Students across the Archdiocese of Baltimore are adjusting to at-home learning.
In response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Pope Francis said he will give an extraordinary blessing “urbi et orbi” (to the city and the world) at 6 p.m. Rome time March 27.
Going to the cemetery can be emotional, but it can also be very peaceful and spiritual. I think about what a fleeting time on earth this is for each of us.
The joy of this Sunday in the midst of Lent and our troubles is no ordinary joy, the kind we experience when everything is going our way. No, it’s an extraordinary, life-changing joy, when we finally open the eyes of our heart to the One who is “God from God, light from light, true God from true God” – to the One who frees us from sin, supports us in every trial, and enables us to participate to the fullest extent of our being, in the truth, joy, and love of God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
“By the mandate of the supreme pontiff for the year 2020 only,” the congregation issued guidelines March 20 for celebrating the Triduum and Easter liturgies without the presence of the faithful.
