Diocese of Rome

Bedside care: Rome priest chronicles ministering while sick with COVID-19
- Jan 15, 2021
Before Nov. 19, Father Valerio Bortolotti’s Facebook posts had been the usual updates and reminders about parish activities, formation courses and video-recorded Masses outdoors with lax mask usage among the celebrants.

By Carol Glatz
Caritas, Red Cross offer safe shelter for Rome homeless amid pandemic
- Jan 10, 2021
In an effort to provide immediate shelter and aid to people living on the street in Rome while also trying to curb the spread of coronavirus, the diocesan Caritas and the Italian Red Cross have started operating a testing and temporary holding center for new arrivals before they go on to regular shelters.

By Carol Glatz
Italian cardinal-designate says he’s simply a pastor
- Nov 27, 2020
“I am a pastor,” Cardinal-designate Enrico Feroci, 80, said after Pope Francis announced he would make him a cardinal. “I hope to continue being a pastor.”

By Cindy Wooden

Caritas shelter in Rome closed temporarily after COVID-19 outbreak
- Oct 21, 2020
A Caritas shelter located in Rome’s Termini train station suspended activities after nearly half of its residents tested positive for COVID-19.

By Junno Arocho Esteves

Rome parishes to lend classroom space to public schools
- Jul 30, 2020
Public schools in Rome, like elsewhere in the world, are scrambling to ensure the safety of students and staff while also resuming classroom instruction.

By Cindy Wooden
Pope creates fund for workers in Rome struggling in wake of pandemic
- Jun 9, 2020
With so many people left unemployed or in a precarious position because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pope Francis launched a fund aimed specifically at helping people in Rome struggling economically in the wake of the crisis.

By Carol Glatz
Learn from people’s suffering, forge new ways of living, pope says
- Jun 1, 2020
As pain, fear and anger fueled riots across the United States, Pope Francis wrote to the priests of the Diocese of Rome, urging them to learn from the suffering of the coronavirus and start building new communities of care for one another.

By Cindy Wooden
Army, city sanitation workers begin sanitizing Rome churches
- May 14, 2020
Following a request from the Vicariate of Rome, the city of Rome has called on the Italian army and the city sanitation department to sanitize all of Rome’s parish churches in preparation for the resumption of public liturgies May 18.

By Carol Glatz