As the Vatican health service continued vaccinating Vatican residents and employees against COVID-19, it also began offering the vaccine to homeless people who live in Vatican-owned shelters.
The first 25 shelter residents were vaccinated Jan. 20, ...
Saying the nation "reverently pauses in supplication to remember and to pray for the many thousands of people who have died from the coronavirus during this past year," Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory offered the ...
Before the COVID-19 pandemic was a part of our daily reality, many Catholic schools faced shrinking enrollment and shrinking budgets. Then came March 2020 and, along with it, the final nail in the coffin of ...
Pope Francis encouraged Venezuela's bishops and priests to remain united in their pastoral mission to serve Catholics in the country amid the difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a video message to a virtual meeting ...
With the news that dozens of people were suffocating to death due to a lack of oxygen in hospitals in the Amazon city of Manaus, Catholic bishops made a plea for the supply of an ...
Orlando Soto smoked a cigarette and looked at his phone in a small fenced-in concrete courtyard outside Emmanuel House, an overflow men’s homeless shelter in Providence, Rhode Island. “We got TV, Wi-Fi. We watch movies ...
The pandemic lockdowns and travel restrictions have had an impact on the Catholic Church's relationships with other Christian churches, but the effects were not all bad.
Around the globe, Christians of different denominations have and continue ...
The Vatican began vaccinating its employees and residents against COVID-19 Jan. 13, giving priority to its health care workers, security personnel, employees who deal with the public and older residents, employees and retirees.
Both Pope Francis ...
Praising those who help the sick and praying for those who are sick, Pope Francis called on Christians to practice what they preach, including by guaranteeing equal access to health care for all people.
"The current ...
Pope Francis offered prayers for the people of the United States "shaken by the recent siege on Congress" and prayed for the five people who lost their lives "in those dramatic moments" when protesters stormed ...