Fr. Giuseppe Berardelli. Credit: Casigno Oratory While Fr. Giuseppe Berardelli is remembered fondly by those who knew him as a man of kindness and self-sacrifice, …
Full Closure of Catholic Churches
Following the Prime Minister’s historic announcement last night (23 March) strengthening restrictions in an attempt to combat the spread of COVID-19, Catholic Churches are closed to …
Coronavirus Update 23/03/2020
13:45 – Tuesday 24 March 2020 You can view the latest update from Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales here. 20:45 – Monday 23 …
Pope Francis prays for people facing economic hardship due to coronavirus
Pope Francis prays following Mass in Casa Santa Marta on March 23, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media Pope Francis offered Mass on Monday for people facing …
Pope Francis to give a special Urbi et Orbi blessing amid coronavirus pandemic
Pope Francis announced Sunday that he will give an extraordinary Urbi et Orbi blessing this week with the opportunity for Catholics to receive a plenary …
Pope Francis: As humanity trembles from pandemic, let us unite in prayer
Pope Francis looks out at an empty St. Peter’s Square. Credit: Vatican Media. Pope Francis has asked Christians around the world to unite in praying …
Syria’s Hidden Victims – Seta Kale
Seta Kale. Courtesy photo. The Syrian civil war has led to one of the largest refugee crises of modern times and presented unique problems for …
Pope Francis offers this spiritual communion prayer during coronavirus pandemic
Pope Francis’ televised Mass and Eucharistic Adoration on March 21, 2020. Credit: Vatican Media/CNA. As more Catholics around the world find themselves unable to receive …
How to stay isolated, stay married, and keep your friends
The policy of social distancing means that the newly-homebound are seeing less of coworkers than they did just weeks ago. They’re seeing fewer friends too. …
Vatican: Easter date can not be changed, despite coronavirus
The Vatican department for liturgy published guidelines yesterday for bishops and priests on the celebration of Holy Week, the Triduum, and Easter liturgies during the …
Coronavirus may cause ‘grave necessity’ for general absolution, Vatican says
Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, has said that the coronavirus pandemic may justify the use of general absolution, in extraordinary circumstances, for …
Holy See grants indulgence to coronavirus patients and Catholics who pray for them
The Vatican’s Apostolic Penitentiary has granted a plenary indulgence for people with COVID-19 and for those who care for them, including medical staff and family …
Why have Mass with no one there?
With public Masses suspended in many countries, many Catholics have been told to stay home, make a spiritual communion, and maintain a prayer routine until …
Cardinal encourages consecrated Catholics to protect their health, and to pray
The prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life has encouraged religious to intensify their prayer during the coronavirus outbreak, and to obey requests …
“We’ll remember this Lent for many years,” Bishop Philip Egan
The bishop of Portsmouth, has encouraged his flock to remain steadfast in prayer during the COVID-19 outbreak, telling Catholics they will remember how they lived …
Confession by phone, Skype? Could it happen during coronavirus pandemic?
As much of the world faces quarantines, social distancing, and “shelter in place” orders amid the coronavirus pandemic, Catholics have faced unexpected challenges in accessing …
UPDATE: Coronavirus update from Cardinal Nichols
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, In response to the Coronavirus pandemic, so many aspects of our lives must change. This includes the ways in …
French Catholics begin novena as Lourdes closes for the first time in history
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes has closed for the first time in over a century following new restrictions in France to slow the …
Ireland’s Msgr. Hugh O’Flaherty, a Vatican ‘defender of the weak’
Msgr. Hugh O’Flaherty, an Irish priest who hid Italian Jews from the Nazis and went on to baptise the former head of the Gestapo in …
Primate of All Ireland calls for ‘outpouring of works of mercy’ on St. Patrick’s Day
You are never alone, even in the isolation during the Coronavirus pandemic, the Primate of All Ireland told the country’s Catholics on St. Patrick’s Day. …