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Prelate advises cellphones can’t be used to administer sacraments
Administering the sacrament of reconciliation via cellphone is impermissible under church teaching, said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Divine Worship.
Bishops shocked that U.K. to allow abortion pills at home during pandemic
The English bishops have expressed their shock at an emergency policy to allow “do-it-yourself abortions” during the coronavirus pandemic.
A parishioner finds lessons on her way home in the midst of a pandemic
Tens of thousands of U.S. citizens and residents were abroad as news of the rapid spread of COVID-19 dispersed almost as fast as the virus that causes it around the world.
Student Knights bring peers together for virtual fish fry using Zoom
The university students who belong to the Knights of Columbus council at University Catholic in Nashville decided that if their fellow students couldn’t come to their Lenten fish fry, they would bring the fish fry to them.
Amid coronavirus sacrifices, some bishops allow Friday meat in Lent
In the U.S., this Lent started out with some people discussing if it was acceptable to eat plant-based burgers on Fridays in Lent.
Bishop calls priest who died from COVID-19 ‘a great missionary among us’
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn March 28 announced the death of Father Jorge Ortiz-Garay, 49, who died the evening before from COVID-19.
Site crashes as half million-plus watch England’s rededication to Mary
English Catholics rededicated their country as Mary’s Dowry “in the eye of the storm” of the coronavirus pandemic.
Via phone, priest helps dying man through act of contrition, prayer
Because of hospital coronavirus restrictions, a suburban Portland priest March 22 was not allowed to meet with a Catholic patient dying of COVID-19.
Sisters’ work during 1918 Spanish flu seen as model for crisis today
Catholic nuns emerged as the unexpected heroes in the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic that killed hundreds of thousands in the United States and millions worldwide.
Priority on economy over people may lead to ‘viral genocide,’ pope warns
Countries fighting the coronavirus pandemic could face deadly consequences if they focus on protecting their economies more than their own people, Pope Francis said.
Pope joins U.N. call for immediate global cease-fire
Saying conflicts can never be resolved with war, Pope Francis added his support to a U.N. appeal for a global cease-fire amid the worldwide threat of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Archbishop Coakley, CRS welcome $2.2 trillion in federal COVID-19 relief
Citing provisions of the $2.2 trillion federal relief package that will aid poor and vulnerable people as well as workers, Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City thanked Congress and President Donald Trump for putting the law in place.
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