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Many pregnancy centers are finding ways to serve families and pregnant women in need during the pandemic.
Mass for Divine Mercy Sunday, celebrated by Bishop Michael F. Burbidge, will be livestreamed April 19, 9:30 a.m.
For many families, social distancing and the stay-at-home orders, while stressful, provide the silver lining of added time together and the opportunity to reconnect. Sadly, this increased time at home is not a positive thing for all families. In some cases, home is not peaceful, and the people in it are not safe.
Catholic business owners find ways to stay open, or deal with the fallout of shutting down.
During this time when everyone is home and may need something uplifting, spiritual or funny to keep their minds off the coronavirus pandemic, the staff of the Catholic Herald offers you our top 10 favorite movies with a touch of religion or a message of faith.
With co-founder Peter Maurin, Dorothy Day in 1933 set up the Catholic Worker Movement, the Catholic Worker newspaper and the first of a series of emergency shelters for the poorest of the poor of the Depression-ravaged streets of New York City. Over the next nearly 50 years, Day would become an activist and gadfly to the rich and powerful, and she remains a paradox for many Catholics 40 years after her death in 1980. A good deal of that mystery has been reconsidered in a new full-length biography, "Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century" by co-authors John Loughery and Blythe Randolph.
Online becomes the new playground and classroom during the coronavirus pandemic.
With parents and kids alike sheltering in place, moms and dads may be on the lookout for entertainment that will hold children's attention. Following is a roundup of some programming aimed at little ones that's available on major streaming platforms.
Well-crafted but distinctly partisan documentary examining the impact of gerrymandering on American politics. Filmmakers Barak Goodman and Chris Durrance use the struggle of a Michigan group called Voters Not Politicians, founded by political novice Katie Fahey, to end the practice in that state as the starting point for a wide-ranging exploration of the history and current status of the activity, with particular focus on North Carolina and Wisconsin.
Gospel commentary: ‘Peace I leave you’
On Easter Sunday evening, the disciples were behind locked doors for fear of the Jewish leaders. Jesus suddenly appeared, not as a bloody corpse, but in his personhood, body and soul, humanity and divinity, glorified and spiritualized. However, he still had his wound marks, to show the hurt caused by sin. When he said, “Peace be with you,” a great peace must have rushed into the hearts of the apostles.