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Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, papal vicar of Rome, said he spoke to Pope Francis March 12 before ordering the closure of all churches in Rome because of the coronavirus pandemic; the next day, he said he spoke to the pope again and modified his order.
Father Eric Albertson, a priest from the Diocese of Arlington serving as an active duty army chaplain with the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, has been assigned as senior chaplain for Special Operations Command.
Pope Francis urged people to pray for parish priests so that they may find ways to accompany their people while the coronavirus pandemic continues to restrict movement around the country and the world.
The Colorado Senate March 11 approved a measure to do away with the state's observance of Columbus Day, a federal holiday, and instead create a day to honor St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, the patron of immigrants.
The Church of All Saints in Bergamo -- located in a cemetery in Italy's hardest-hit Lombardy region — has had to open its doors to dozens of coffins containing the remains of people who died of COVID-19.
Pope Francis entrusted to Jesus' mother the suffering and anguish of millions of people affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Italian government has declared the entire country a "red zone" for the coronavirus epidemic, asking everyone to stay home. But people may leave their homes to buy groceries, go to the pharmacy and go to work "if necessary." What is "necessary" was not strictly defined, so the six members of the Catholic News Service Rome Bureau just tried to be smart, safe and socially responsible.
Here is a CNS translation of the prayer Pope Francis recited by video March 11 for a special Mass, asking Mary to protect Italy and the world during the coronavirus pandemic.
With active cases of coronavirus present in Maryland, Washington, D.C. and Virginia, the Diocese is taking additional precautions.
Cast aside
The poem, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is one of those literary classics you’ve heard quoted time and again without even knowing it. Its most famous line, “Water, water, everywhere, and all the boards did shrink. Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink,” images a sailor dying of thirst, surrounded only by saltwater. Saltwater, of course, cannot quench thirst. Drinking enough of it causes death by dehydration. Some refugees, adrift on an open sea and dying of thirst, have actually given into the maddening temptation, and drank seawater to their own death. Sometimes that which looks like sweet relief is, in cold reality, lethal.