COVID-19

“While we also support our local parish and diocese, national collections allow modest gifts to the collection basket to make multi-million-dollar differences on lives and communities here at home and around the world.”

When he addresses, via video message, the U.N. General Assembly Sept. 15, Pope Francis is expected to speak about using the coronavirus crisis as an opportunity to rethink economic, political and environmental policies in a way that will benefit humanity and the earth.

For the deaf, face masks during COVID-19 has forced people to adapt to new ways of doing things.

In Iten, Kenya, Irish Patrician Brother Colm O’Connell is working to motivate athletes overwhelmed by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

With the global pandemic practically shutting everything down for months, the sacramental wine and altar bread business has suffered like other businesses in the country.

Pope Francis calls ‘spiritual closeness’ during this time of necessary social distancing Cardinal Tobin noted in a reflection on “Ministry in a Time of Social Distancing: Synodality and Closeness.”

Ask yourself: “What are the riches you would not give away to go where God asks you?”

“Living through a historic pandemic, economic collapse and racial upheaval isn’t pretty, but it is instructive.”