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Across Europe, churches offer empty facilities to help fight COVID-19

OXFORD, England — Catholic dioceses and religious orders across Europe are offering to turn church facilities into spaces needed for health care or housing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Coronavirus may produce misery beyond disease to migrants, home countries

WASHINGTON — Lack of jobs and economic disparity in Central America were already driving large numbers of migrants north before the coronavirus became a household word.
Ethicists, lawyers see dangers in rationing of scarce health resources

BALTIMORE — Catholic ethicists and legal experts are sounding the alarm that the scarcity of resources such as ventilators and hospital beds during the current coronavirus pandemic could prompt health care decisions based only on age and disability -- and in some cases already is.
‘Stay the course’ - Keeping the faith, keeping a restaurant, and helping employees amid coronavirus

Favazza has had to lay off almost 50 people, but has been able to help many of them get set up for unemployment, showing them how to fill out complicated government forms.
First U.S. clergy fatality from COVID-19 a deacon in Washington

WASHINGTON — A Franciscan friar who was on his way to join a new religious community in New York became Washington's first COVID-19 fatality March 20 and the first known U.S. Catholic cleric to die after contracting the coronavirus.
American seminary in Rome orders students to return home during coronavirus

Amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, the Pontifical North American College has ordered its students to return to the United States by the end of this week.
No Mass, no offertory: Parish, diocesan, national collections take a hit

WASHINGTON — One byproduct of canceled Masses is no offertory collection. And a byproduct of no offertory collection is puncture wounds in the budgets of parishes, dioceses and national collections.
Washington Lt. Gov. Cyrus Habib to leave office, join the Jesuits

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The lieutenant governor of Washington announced March 19 that he will not seek re-election and instead will enter the Society of Jesus this autumn.
Parents share ideas on how to make sudden onset of home schooling work

CLEVELAND — With kids at home because schools are closed and online education on tap for at least several weeks, parents are wondering how to ensure that learning continues.
How could a market downturn affect Catholic giving? A look at the data

While the economic outlook is changing day-by-day, two experts in fundraising for Catholic causes pointed to historical data that suggests that pastors and bishops ought not be reticent to continue fundraising efforts.
Confession by phone, Skype, or emoji? Could it happen during coronavirus pandemic?

Catholics in some places impacted by the pandemic have learned that the sacrament of confession — the remedy for sin and a conduit of God’s mercy — has become rather difficult to find.
Why have Mass with no one there?

WASHINGTON — With public Masses suspended in more than 100 dioceses across the United States, many Catholics have been told to stay home, make a spiritual communion, and maintain a prayer routine until the coronavirus pandemic passes. Masses are still being celebrated privately, but what does that mean?
Coronavirus and the collection basket: Parishes feel quarantine cash crunch

DENVER — While dioceses across the country have canceled public Masses in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus, many parishes are remaining open for prayer, Eucharistic adoration, and confession, and continuing charitable work in the community.
In the time of COVID-19, the cloistered life offers lessons for the world

WASHINGTON — People often telephone Sister Maria Elena Romero, a Capuchin Franciscan Poor Clare in Wilmington, Delaware, to ask for her to pray for a personal intention, to sound out a problem, sometimes just to cry.
Washington Catholic priest is first in US known to be diagnosed with coronavirus

YAKIMA — A priest in the Diocese of Yakima, Washington, is the first U.S. priest known to be diagnosed with COVID-19, the coronavirus that has become a global pandemic.
Police disperse Catholics at Sunday Mass in Italy

ROME, Italy — Italian police on Sunday dispersed Catholics attending a Mass being celebrated in a parish outside of Rome. The Italian government has prohibited public gatherings in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Some U.S. dioceses excuse Catholics from Sunday Mass, others cancel Masses

PHILADELPHIA — Catholics in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia not wishing to attend Sunday Mass for fear of spreading or contracting the coronavirus are no longer obligated to do so, until further notice.
'The doors of America's Church are open'

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., will remain open with a normal Mass and confession schedule.
Seattle archdiocese suspends all public Masses amid coronavirus pandemic

SEATTLE — The Archdiocese of Seattle will indefinitely suspend public Masses in response to the coronavirus pandemic, which has left at least 31 dead in Washington, along with 375 people in the state who have tested positive for the virus.
The Fourteen Holy Helpers: Plague saints for a time of coronavirus

Epidemic is not a new experience in the life of the church. In the middle of the 14th century, the plague — also called “The Black Death” — also also called “The Greatest Catastrophe Ever” —ravaged Europe, killing 50 million people, or about 60% of the population (a vastly higher death rate than coronavirus), within a few years.

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