Coronavirus

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone is urging Catholics to fast every Friday for an end to the coronavirus pandemic.

DAVENPORT, Iowa -- As Alicia Nava flipped through family photographs the morning of July 25, she said solemnly from behind a floral print mask, "We were taking precautions."

As the nation continues to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic, university life is cautiously stepping back into the fray of bringing students, faculty and staff members back together under extreme restrictions.

​​​​​​​By a 5-4 vote on Friday the Supreme Court upheld Nevada’s coronavirus regulation that limits attendance at indoor religious services to 50 persons.

A print book which includes Pope Francis’ homilies during the coronavirus lockdown in Italy has been published by the Vatican.

An informal survey of local families about schools recently conducted by the Diocese of Manchester, New Hampshire, found that eight out of 10 families indicated their child missed interaction with classmates and teachers during the pandemic-related national lockdown.

U.S. Catholic schools are tweaking their reopening plans for a worrisome fall term by consulting parents and training staff for face-to-face instruction in many cases but with distance-learning programs in place as well.

Vallombrosa Center in Menlo Park, announced July 17 that it will close temporarily through January 2021. The center announced a series of virtual retreats and opportunities for the public to provide support through registering for future events, donating and volunteering.

Instead of one simple message, the Bible is "a library produced over a millennium with multiple and often diverging responses to very difficult situations."

WASHINGTON -- Inside New York's iconic St. Patrick's Cathedral, some 250 Mexican nationals were hailed as anonymous heroes July 11, after dying of COVID-19, which they likely contracted as they kept the city moving when it was experiencing the peak of the pandemic earlier this year.