The number of religious men and women in religious orders has dropped between 2013-2018 according to Vatican statistics.
Vatican statistics show decline in number of consecrated men, women
N.J. archdiocese launches online site for parish donations during crisis
The effort, coordinated with GoFundMe, a global online fundraising platform, will enable parishioners to provide direct support to local churches at a time when public celebration of Mass at churches in the Archdiocese of Newark and dioceses around the country has been suspended for the foreseeable future.
Pray the Our Father with Pope Francis – March 25 at 6 a.m.
Join Pope Francis to pray the Our Father, Wednesday, March 25, live.
Coronavirus claims the Pittsburgh Catholic as diocese suspends publication
The new coronavirus has claimed the Pittsburgh Catholic newspaper as a victim.
Religious find inventive techniques of caring for community in isolation
As people throughout the U.S. self-isolate and retreat from daily life amid the COVID-19 pandemic, priests and women religious have become beacons of hope globally as they mobilize in unconventional ways.
Catholic leaders praise Colorado’s repeal of death penalty
Gov. Jared Polis signed a death penalty repeal bill March 23, 2020, to abolish capital punishment.
Pope: Personnel, priests caring for COVID-19 patients are heroes
Pope Francis offered his prayers for the growing number of doctors, nurses and priests who have died after becoming infected while being “at the service of the sick.”
First U.S. clergy fatality from COVID-19 a deacon in Washington
A Franciscan friar who was on his way to join a new religious community in New York became Washington’s first COVID-19 fatality March 20 and the first known U.S. Catholic cleric to die after contracting the coronavirus.