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SAO PAULO — In one day, the Catholic Church on two continents lost two leaders to COVID-19. Both men were outspoken defenders of the church.
ROME — Before Nov. 19, Father Valerio Bortolotti's Facebook posts had been the usual updates and reminders about parish activities, formation courses and video-recorded Masses outdoors with lax mask usage among the celebrants.
VATICAN CITY — The pandemic lockdowns and travel restrictions have had an impact on the Catholic Church's relationships with other Christian churches, but the effects were not all bad.
ST. PAUL, Minn. — If great minds had brainstormed how to create a podcast that would jump to No. 1 in Apple's podcast rankings, they never would have landed on "The Bible in a Year," joked Jeff Cavins, a Bible scholar and creator of the Great Adventure Bible Timeline.
VATICAN CITY — Both Pope Francis and retired Pope Benedict XVI have received the first dose of the vaccine against COVID-19 after the Vatican started vaccinating its employees and residents Jan. 13.
VATICAN CITY — It may seem illogical, but Christians are called to give God praise — not complaints — in times of darkness and difficulty, Pope Francis said.
On a cold December day Catholic Charities Mobile Response Center — affectionately known as the Mercy Van — pulled up to a parking lot at the St. John Bosco Thrift Shop in Woodstock in the Shenandoah Valley. Inside the shop, the truck staff and volunteers prepared to distribute essential household and personal care items to low-income and homeless individuals and families who typically show up to receive the items.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit a year ago, many people looked at religious communities whose members don’t leave their monasteries — such as the Poor Clares in Alexandria — as unusual. Fast forward to today and the “cloistered” life has become more relatable.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court Jan. 12 reinstated a federal requirement that women who are seeking abortion-inducing drugs must do so in person, not by mail, as a federal judge had allowed last year due to the pandemic and the high court had let stand.
VATICAN CITY — The crisis facing many countries due to the COVID-19 pandemic requires a united global response that shuns nationalistic interests and creates long-lasting solutions, said Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, the Vatican's permanent observer to the United Nations.
