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Father Scott Holmer, pastor at St. Edward the Confessor Catholic Church in Bowie, Md., offers drive-through confessions in the parking lot of the parish March 18, 2020, keeping a safe distance away from penitents amid the coronavirus pandemic. (CNS photo/Andrew Biraj, Catholic Standard)

‘Bless me, Father - but from 6 feet away!’ Coronavirus and confession

Mary Farrow|Mar 18, 2020|7 Min Read

Brad Pitt, Sterling Jerins, and Mireille Enos in "World War Z." (IMDB)

Zombies, pandemics, and saints

Greg Erlandson|Mar 18, 2020|4 Min Read

Sister Cabrini Delaney consults with a member of the dietary staff at the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace's Englewood Cliff, N.J., facility, in this October 2016 photo. Care for retired religious takes special emphasis amid the coronavirus pandemic. (CNS photo/courtesy Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace)

Care for retired religious takes special emphasis amid pandemic

Carol Zimmermann|Mar 17, 2020|5 Min Read

St. John Paul II STEM Academy principal Jeff Hilger presents to students via “distance learning” March 16. (ST. JOHN PAUL II STEM ACADEMY)

How are Catholics coping with school closures?

Matt Hadro|Mar 17, 2020|6 Min Read

Health workers at Boliviano Holandes Hospital in El Alto, Bolivia, demand better resources to help coronavirus patients March 12, 2020. Archbishop Sergio Alfredo Gualberti Calandrina of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, has called for solidarity as the number of COVID-19 cases increase. (CNS photo/David Mercado, Reuters)

World

Archbishop urges solidarity; Latin Americans cancel Mass amid pandemic

Catholic News Service|Mar 17, 2020|4 Min Read

Capuchin Franciscan Sister Maria Elena Romero, in this undated photo at the Veronica Giuliani Monastery in Wilmington, Del., entered the life of a cloistered nun in 1983 when she joined the order of St. Clare. Though many are struggling with limiting contact with others as the world deals with COVID-19, this can be a time for spiritual opportunity, she said. (CNS photo/Rhina Guidos)

Faith

In the time of COVID-19, the cloistered life offers lessons for the world

Rhina Guidos|Mar 17, 2020|5 Min Read

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Coronavirus and the collection basket: Parishes feel quarantine cash crunch

Jonah McKeown|Mar 17, 2020|6 Min Read

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, speaks during an interview in his office at the Vatican April 17, 2018. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Science-solidarity combo needed to stop pandemic, says Vatican official

Cindy Wooden|Mar 17, 2020|2 Min Read

An elderly woman in Grevenbroich, Germany, walks through a corridor of a retirement home March 16, 2020. Pope Francis urged Christians March 17 to remember the elderly who are suffering not only loneliness but also fear due to the spread of the coronavirus. (CNS photo/Thilo Schmuelgen, Reuters)

Faith

As lockdown continues, pope prays for lonely elderly

Junno Arocho Esteves|Mar 17, 2020|2 Min Read

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World

Primate of All Ireland calls for ‘outpouring of works of mercy’ on St. Patrick’s Day

Catholic News Agency|Mar 17, 2020|2 Min Read

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World

French Catholics begin novena as Lourdes closes for first time in history

Courtney Mares|Mar 17, 2020|3 Min Read

Pope Francis prays in front of the Marian icon "Salus Populi Romani" at the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome March 15. According to legend, late in the 6th century Pope Gregory I had the icon carried through the streets of Rome in prayer that the Black Plague would end, and in 1837, Pope Gregory XVI prayed before the image for an end to a devastating cholera outbreak. (Vatican Media)

Faith

What the Catholic Church knows about charity in the time of pandemic

Elizabeth Lev and Thomas D. Williams|Mar 17, 2020|9 Min Read

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