Pope warns Christian exodus from Middle East does 'incalculable harm'
- Mar 7, 2021
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As COVID rages in Brazil, almost 500 Catholic priests infected
- Aug 31, 2020
With 3.7 million confirmed cases and 118,000 deaths, Brazil has become the epicenter of the pandemic in Latin America. Despite the application of strict precautionary measures by the Church, the Brazilian clergy couldn’t remain insusceptible for long.
Over 80 clergy and religious in Mexico have died of COVID-19
- Aug 18, 2020
According to the latest report from the Multimedia Catholic Center, 81 priests and religious have died in Mexico after contracting the COVID-19 coronavirus since March.
New priest says deep prayer helped him sort out life, led to his vocation
- Jul 26, 2020
When Father Joseph Hastings, 33, was growing up, he had dreams like most young boys. He wanted to be a basketball player. He thought about being an actor.
Vatican-recognized exorcists’ group offers guidelines for ‘quality control’
- Jul 19, 2020
The guidelines come in response to a perception that there are too many rogue operators, both clerical and lay, who claim to perform exorcisms but who aren’t authorized to do so.
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.
Forget the bagpipes: Scottish priest turns to accordion during lockdown
- May 1, 2020
One priest in Scotland is livestreaming his accordion during the coronavirus lockdown.
COVID-19 takes toll on Maryknoll religious community in New York
- Apr 22, 2020
The Maryknoll religious community in Ossining, New York, has been hit hard by COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus.
Amid a ‘Spoon River’ of dead, priests in Italy emerging as pandemic heroes
- Apr 12, 2020
At least in Italy, which for a long time was ground zero of the pandemic, the early sense is that most clergy are acquitting themselves pretty well and may be remembered as among the heroes.
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