VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Vatican employees and workers who have contact with the public are being tested for the antibodies for COVID-19, said the new director of the Vatican department of health and hygiene. "For [...]
DAVENPORT, Iowa (CNS) -- As Alicia Nava flipped through family photographs the morning of July 25, she said solemnly from behind a floral print mask, "We were taking precautions." Three weeks before, she was in [...]
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- As one college president put it: "It's been a year like no other." Ann McElaney-Johnson, president of Mount St. Mary's University in Los Angeles, made that understatement during a June 22 webinar, [...]
MIAMI (CNS) -- Calling the COVID-19 pandemic the challenge of a lifetime, the nation's top public health official traveled to Florida seeking help in slowing the deadly outbreak. He also came to learn how one [...]
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Workers whose jobs put them in direct contact with the public related both the pride and fear of doing their work amid the coronavirus pandemic during a July 22 forum sponsored by [...]
LIVONIA, Mich. (CNS) -- They were teachers. A librarian. A director of religious education. A secretary in the Vatican Secretariat of State. The author of a 586-page history of the congregation. One was an organist. [...]
NEW ORLEANS (CNS) -- The death of Michael Hickson, a 46-year-old quadriplegic, inside an Austin, Texas, hospice in June, pricked the conscience of Charlie Camosy. Camosy is an associate professor of theological and social ethics [...]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CNS) -- Middle Tennessee's immigrant and refugee communities have been hit particularly hard by the COVID-19 virus. In response, parishes and Catholic Charities of Tennessee have been trying to provide the spiritual and [...]
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Until late last year, Rhonda Cummins was one of those who had resisted joining the throngs on Facebook. But when the coronavirus arrived on the world stage in early 2020, she gave [...]
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- With a religious sister who survived COVID-19 and a woman who lost her mother to the coronavirus, Pope Francis led the recitation of rosary and asked Mary to intercede to save [...]
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- After the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization projected a drastic increase in hunger and malnutrition due to the coronavirus, a Vatican official called on the international community to work together to [...]
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Brazilian Bishop Vital Corbellini of Maraba expressed his gratitude to Pope Francis after receiving a much-needed respirator and temperature gauge for a hospital treating indigenous patients with COVID-19. The diocese said [...]