May 15, 2020
Lenten Penance: Getting Back on Track
Our understanding of penance is based on our understanding of sin.
Eucharist: Jesus Always With Us
When Vatican II described the Eucharist as the “source and summit of the Church’s life” (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, #10), Catholics began to participate more actively at Mass, now celebrated in their mother tongue.
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Churches, chaplains, nuns have unexpected role in COVID-19 crisis
In a nation where the faithful are not allowed to assemble for Mass, one church in northern Italy is full. The Church of All Saints in Bergamo — located in a cemetery in Italy’s hardest-hit Lombardy region — has had ...
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Chinese diocese donates masks to Vatican to fight COVID-19
A Catholic diocese in China's Shaanxi province has donated thousands of face masks to communities in the Vatican and Italy to help them fight the coronavirus.
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Holy sites closed after COVID-19 reports
JERUSALEM (CNS) -- The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem urged its faithful to cooperate with the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health, following its order March 5 to close all schools, universities, mosques and churches, including the Church of the Nativity and ...
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Amid COVID-19 pandemic, pope prays for homeless
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — During his live-streamed daily morning Mass, Pope Francis prayed that the coronavirus pandemic may awaken people’s consciences to the plight of homeless men and women suffering in the world.
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COVID-19 does what war couldn’t: churches closed in Syria