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Cindy Wooden writes for Catholic News Service.

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Displaced Syrian children are seen at a camp in Idlib April 14, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Internally displaced people, those forced to flee their homes, but who do not cross into another country, still often need protection and special assistance, including from the church, said a new Vatican document released May 5. (CNS photo/Khalil Ashawi, Reuters)

Emergency multitasking: Vatican says keep all vulnerable in mind

Cindy Wooden|May 5, 2020|5 Min Read

Pope Francis greets Cardinal Beniamino Stella, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, during an audience with participants in the plenary assembly of the Congregation for Clergy at the Vatican June 1, 2017. Pope Francis has expanded the ranks of the top members of the College of Cardinals, naming as "cardinal bishops" Cardinal Stella and Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano)

Pope makes promotions within the College of Cardinals

Cindy Wooden|May 1, 2020|3 Min Read

Pope Francis celebrates Mass May 1, 2020, in the chapel of his Vatican residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Faith

On St. Joseph feast day, pope prays for workers, employers

Cindy Wooden|May 1, 2020|3 Min Read

Workers survey bones taken from an ossuary at the Teutonic cemetery in this image released by the Vatican July 27, 2019. The Vatican announced April 30, 2020, that the Vatican City State court officially closed its investigation into the possibility that some of the remains belonged to Emanuela Orlandi, the teenage woman missing for more than 30 years. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Case closed: Vatican says bones are not those of missing woman

Cindy Wooden|Apr 30, 2020|2 Min Read

A migrant woman and child are seen outside their tent in a makeshift camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece, April 2, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS photo/Elias Marcou, Reuters)

Same storm, different boats: Vatican looks at ways to help all survive

Cindy Wooden|Apr 30, 2020|4 Min Read

Pope Francis gives his homily during Mass April 28, 2020, in the chapel of his Vatican residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Faith

As lockdowns end, pope prays for prudence in behavior, judging others

Cindy Wooden|Apr 28, 2020|3 Min Read

A priest celebrates Easter Mass via livestream from an empty church in San Giorgio Ionico, Italy, April 12, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. In an April 26 statement, the Italian bishops' conference accused the government of adopting plans to ease the country's COVID-19 lockdown rules in a way that "arbitrarily excludes the possibility of celebrating Mass with the people." (CNS photo/Alessandro Garofalo, Reuters)

World

Italian bishops demand plan for resuming public Masses

Cindy Wooden|Apr 27, 2020|3 Min Read

Gregory K. Hillis, professor of theology at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Ky., takes a selfie April 22, 2020, with his hen, Mag. The professor said his post-pandemic resolution is to stop "trying to control that which is ultimately uncontrollable." (CNS photo/courtesy of Gregory Hillis)

Faith

Post-pandemic resolutions: Stay in touch, learn acceptance, go for walks

Cindy Wooden|Apr 22, 2020|6 Min Read

Cardinal Michael Czerny, undersecretary for the Vatican's Migrants and Refugees Section, stands on the terrace of the Jesuit residence in Rome April 22, 2020, where he lives and, during the coronavirus lockdown, works. (CNS photo/courtesy Cardinal Czerny)

World

Post-pandemic resolutions: Changing 'normal' for the better

Cindy Wooden|Apr 22, 2020|6 Min Read

Pope Francis leads Benediction during a prayer service in an empty St. Peter's Square at the Vatican March 27, 2020. Although the pope usually draws large in-person crowds, during the COVID-19 pandemic his assemblies have reached the faithful through television, radio and the internet. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Faith

Pope's 'virtual' congregations show true unity in prayer, Jesuit says

Cindy Wooden|Apr 16, 2020|3 Min Read

Pope Francis holds his weekly general audience April 15, 2020, in the papal library in the Apostolic Palace. Continuing his series of audience talks about the Eight Beatitudes, the pope focused on the seventh, "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God." (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Christ's peace is reflected in acts of love, reconciliation, pope says

Cindy Wooden|Apr 15, 2020|3 Min Read

Pope Francis celebrates the Eucharist during Easter Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican April 12, 2020. The Mass was celebrated without the presence of the public due to the coronavirus pandemic. (CNS photo/Andreas Solaro, Reuters pool)

Pope calls for a 'contagion' of Easter hope, peace, care for poor

Cindy Wooden|Apr 12, 2020|5 Min Read

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