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Haitians and Venezuelans receive food aid from church members in Lima, Peru, March 30, 2020. (CNS photo/Sebastian Castaneda, Reuters)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Eduardo Campos Lima
Migrants from Haiti, Central America and Venezuela have been caught in the middle of their journeys by the Covid-19 pandemic. The Latin American church is building up its support structure to respond to this emerging crisis.
FaithFaith in Focus
Holly Taylor Coolman
There is something that I am reminded of when we gather at our family table: the church’s practice of feasting.
FaithFaith in Focus
Kerry Weber
These days, the only thing I am certain about is that because of the pandemic everything has changed and will continue to change in ways I can’t yet know.
Arts & CultureMusic
James T. Keane
John Prine, who died on Tuesday, April 7, was one of country-folk music's greatest lyricists.
FaithFaith in Focus
Joe Hoover, S.J.
You are called to become obedient enough to serve the God who invites you to do seemingly very little. The God who himself apparently does nothing as the disease spreads.
Residents stand on a balcony as a South African National Defence Forces vehicle patrol the street, in Johannesburg on April 7. South Africa and more than half of Africa's 54 countries have imposed lockdowns, curfews, travel bans or other restrictions to try to contain the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Anthony Egan, S.J.
The national measures being taken against the spread of the coronavirus in South Africa are unprecedented and are considered among the strictest in the world.
FaithThe Good Word
Terrance Klein
A virus can keep us from gathering. A spirit-wound, it can curtail the sacramental life Christ gave us. But no virus can separate us from Christ.
Politics & SocietyNews
Barbara Fraser - Catholic News Service
Hospitals and funeral homes in Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city, are overwhelmed by the rising number of COVID-19 cases and deaths, said Archbishop Luis Gerardo Cabrera Herrera.
Politics & SocietyNews
Rhina Guidos - Catholic News Service
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grow in the U.S. faster than anywhere else in the world, the Catholic bishop of El Paso, Texas, is asking local authorities to release nonviolent migrants at his local U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities.
Politics & SocietyNews
Dennis Sadowski - Catholic News Service
Dominican Sister Donna Markham, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, said some Catholic Charities agencies in COVID-19 hot spots such as New York, Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans and Los Angeles are facing unprecedented requests for assistance.
FaithNews
Cindy Wooden - Catholic News Service
Pope Francis said he knows it is not easy to be creative as the lockdown drags on, "but don't run away, don't take refuge in escapism, which in this time is of no use to you."
An extraordinary minister of the holy Eucharist distributes Communion during Mass at Transfiguration Church in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, N.Y.  (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’ConnellColleen Dulle
This is the second commission established by Pope Francis to study the question of a women’s diaconate.
FaithPodcasts
Inside the Vatican
On this episode of “Inside the Vatican,” Colleen Dulle and Gerard O'Connell discuss whether the Vatican's canonical investigation into Cardinal George Pell should continue.
Politics & SocietyNews
Catholic News Service
Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, reminds fellow Catholics that in this pandemic crisis, "Christ is not quarantined" and that the Lord's love is always available to those who seek it.
Politics & SocietyNews
Judith Sudilovsky - Catholic News Service
The coronavirus pandemic has changed the way Palm Sunday is celebrated in Jerusalem, with surgical masks, social distancing, and livestreaming services.
FaithFaith in Focus
Vanessa R. Corcoran
Amid the global pandemic of Covid-19 that has spread throughout this Lenten season, calling on the Mother of Sorrows feels all the more urgent.
Arts & CulturePoetry
James Miller
It wasn't for the money of that I'm sure
Photo: iStock
FaithFaith in Focus
Sean Salai
Although we find ourselves separated from the sacraments, it is possible to make an Ignatian retreat from home as we enter Holy Week.
Politics & SocietyGoodNews
Zoey Maraist - Catholic News Service
Catholic schools in Virginia are finding ways to donate much needed medical supplies to medical professionals in their work against coronavirus.
FaithNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
In other circumstances, however, the current crisis is the result of abandonment "from afar" when it comes to not providing enough assistance and therapeutic care for the elderly, the dicastery added.