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Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has announced the U.S. bishops will join the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops May 1 in consecrating the two nations to the care of the Blessed Mother under the title "Mary, Mother of the Church."
The loss of an electricity source leaves the Thomassique clinic scrambling in the midst of a pandemic.
It can be hard to be cheerful during this crisis that currently plagues the world. Stores are closed, education is online and friends remain at a distance — at least 6 feet, to be exact. However, no trial is too trying and no setback can obstruct progress when we trust in God. The Covid-19 crisis presents everyone with numerous inconveniences with which we have to cope. But the Lenten season that we just spent six weeks living teaches us that all our struggles have a redemptive quality.
No one anticipated last Easter that we would be home, a year later, involuntarily missing the Holy Week services; nor were countless parents prepared to be ‘homeschooling’ their children, albeit with some heroic efforts by educators to support the task via ‘e-learning’; nor were record numbers of employed adults expecting to be facing temporary unemployment, lower hours, or modified work environments (aka my kitchen table). What each of these unexpected events has in common is their cause — COVID 19 — and their impact: stress — from some combination of isolation, strain on interpersonal relationships, insecurity about some area of life, and fear about the future and the health of loved ones or even oneself.
Once a week throughout this pandemic, we’ll be bringing you fun and uplifting videos, photos and posts from people throughout the diocese.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to keep people at home, how people cope and what they are doing during this time is a question that keeps popping up — at virtual work meetings, during teleconferencing happy hours and on social media. Creating art is often suggested to facilitate healing, practice self-care, or as one local artist is doing, combine with prayer.
The St. Lucy Project is soliciting more donations and implementing new procedures to cope with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
As the world slowly recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a risk it will be struck by an even worse virus -- that of selfish indifference, Pope Francis said.
During a Mass livestreamed from the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington on Divine Mercy Sunday 2020, Bishop Michael F. Burbidge spoke of the constant need to “ask for mercy, be merciful and trust in Jesus.”
Second Mother of Mercy Free Medical Clinic begins offering telemedicine to the uninsured.
