quarantine Archives

Catholic family with now-closed food cart relies on faith, positive focus

Apr 6, 2020

Christina and Vinh Nguyen’s lives are centered on three things: Their two children, their faith and their food cart. Now the couple’s Portland mini-kitchen on wheels — its Vietnamese fare of noodle salads and “banh mi” sandwiches, their sole source of income — is temporarily shuttered because of the coronavirus.

By Katie Scott

Even in perfect weather, sports fields are quiet because of pandemic

Apr 5, 2020

On a beautiful sunny spring afternoon in late March, the setting on the softball diamond at Archmere Academy in Claymont, Delaware, was just about perfect. But the Auks’ softball team would not be taking the field that afternoon or any other for the foreseeable future.

By Mike Lang

Vermont high school students create virtual Spirit Week to promote unity

Apr 5, 2020

A Vermont Catholic high school student and two of her hometown friends are showing school spirit during mandatory school closings because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Cori Fugere Urban

People asked to share hearts on windows, doors to lift spirits amid virus

Apr 4, 2020

A woman has started a “social distance scavenger hunt” encouraging people to place hearts on windows and doors, making her new Heart Hunters Facebook page a community that is 600,000 strong and growing.

By Jennifer Willems

Under lockdown, has the whole world become a monastery?

Apr 4, 2020

Dominican Father Paul Murray is one of English-language Catholicism’s most prominent contemporary theologians and poets, and he reflects on the spiritual significance and fall out of the coronavirus pandemic.

By John L. Allen Jr.

As people are ordered to stay home, pope calls for help for homeless

Mar 31, 2020

As national and local governments have been issuing stay-at-home or shelter-in-place orders to curb the spread of the coronavirus, Pope Francis asked people to pray for and assist those who are homeless.

By Carol Glatz