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Across Europe, churches offer empty facilities to help fight COVID-19
The church truly is becoming a "field hospital" during the pandemic as Catholic dioceses and parishes expand homeless shelters, offer rooms to medical personnel and create makeshift morgues.
Solidarity in ethical responses needed in pandemic, Vatican says
A new document by the Pontifical Academy for Life titled "Pandemic and Universal Brotherhood" discusses ethical treatment of the sick and how to speak not of divine retribution but loving, divine care.
Investors urge corporations to act prudently as financial crisis looms
A growing coalition of investors said steps such as emergency paid leave to all employees, prioritizing safety and avoiding layoffs would protect workers in response to the coronavirus.
With few college students to feed, Neumann U donates its fresh food
The Delaware County university now feeds only a handful of students instead of 700 a day, so it donated perishable foods to families of Drexel Neumann Academy, a Catholic school in Chester.
As hard times descend, Project HOME still caring ‘for the least of these’
Philadelphia's premier organization for service to chronically homeless persons faces new challenges from coronavirus restrictions and rising joblessness.
Vatican confirms pope does not have COVID-19
Neither Pope Francis nor his closest aides have the COVID-19 virus, said a spokesman. A monsignor who tested positive for the virus was unlikely to have had contact with the pope.
COVID-19 not God’s judgment, but call to live differently, pope says
Addressing God at a prayer service for a global audience March 27, the pope said this time of pandemic is "a time to get our lives back on track with regard to you, Lord, and to others." See a video.
Distraught, determined Little Sisters of the Poor cope with coronavirus
The Jeanne Jugan Residence in Newark, Delaware, run by the sisters endured a difficult day when a longtime resident, an 86-year-old man with Philadelphia roots, died after testing positive for the coronavirus.
Website now receiving donations for U.S. parishes, schools, ministries
A New Orleans-based fundraiser activated its nationwide platform indefinitely to address "the looming financial crisis to our parishes, dioceses and other Catholic institutions" due to coronavirus.
Nurse sees hardships, joys of caring for most vulnerable during pandemic
Director of Nursing Angela Babcock relies on her faith to juggle the ordinary struggles of the men with intellectual disabilities at Divine Providence Village, all the more so during the coronavirus crisis.