Easter

As Pope opens Holy Week under lockdown, debate swirls around Easter
- Apr 6, 2020
With Easter just days away, debate continues to swirl about how accessible churches and pastors should be on the holiest day on the Christian calendar – and, for that matter, whether Easter ought to be celebrated next Sunday at all.

By John L. Allen Jr.
Israel to help Christians share ‘holy fire’ amid outbreak
- Apr 3, 2020
Israel is working with foreign governments and Orthodox Christian leaders in the Holy Land to make sure that one of their most ancient and mysterious rituals — the Holy Fire ceremony — is not extinguished by the coronavirus outbreak, officials said Friday.

By Josef Federman
Virus forces world religions to similar plans for holy days
- Mar 31, 2020
The global pandemic is upending the season’s major religious holidays, forcing leaders and practitioners across the spectrum to improvise. They’re having to finding new ways to live out their beliefs in a time of social distancing and empty houses of worship.

By Gary Fields

Pandemic fosters creativity as dioceses move toward Holy Week
- Mar 31, 2020
As Catholics dutifully sit at home, doing their part to protect vulnerable people from COVID-19, the Holy Spirit has been busy inspiring creative ways to minister in the Archdiocese of Louisville and around the world.

By Marnie McAllister
Holy Week at the Vatican to be livestreamed, without faithful present
- Mar 27, 2020
On Friday the Vatican published the official schedule for Pope Francis’s Holy Week liturgies, which will all be livestreamed from St. Peter’s Basilica without faithful due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

By Elise Ann Allen
Trump’s Easter goal in war on virus a nod to faith, business
- Mar 26, 2020
President Donald Trump’s “beautiful” idea to reopen the U.S. economy by Easter Sunday and pack church pews that day was dreamed up during a conference call among business leaders desperate to get the country back up and running.

By Jill Colvin and Elana Schor