‘We Were Here’ — Health Care Chaplains Reflect on COVID-19 Ministry
By Carol Zimmermann
WASHINGTON (CNS) — As the coronavirus pandemic swept the nation this past year, hospital chaplains — already accustomed to helping people cope...
Parishes Should Plan Now How to Welcome Back Parishioners to Church
By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Even with many recent hopeful signs on vaccinations and the reduction in the number of COVID-19 cases, there is...
Priest Plans to Auction Coveted Baseball Cards to Aid Low-Income Students
By Dave Hrbacek
ST. PAUL, Minn. (CNS) — A baseball card collection worth thousands of dollars was a split second away from being dropped into...
Emotional, Psychological Toll of Pandemic Just Now Beginning to Be Felt
By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON (CNS) — The psychological and emotional trauma of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic is only now beginning to be felt, and is...
Some Parish Fish Fries Switch Gears to Go Curbside This Lent
By Barb Umberger
ST. PAUL, Minn. (CNS) — Parish fish fries, which are a traditional Lenten staple, have changed course this year in Minnesota due...
How PPP Funding Helped One Parish Weather the 2020 Pandemic
By Tom Tracy
If last year’s Paycheck Protection Program was like a matching grant, prompting recipients to stretch resources in order to maintain payroll and...
After 11 Months of ‘Giving Up,’ What Is There Left to...
By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Since childhood, the typical U.S. Catholic’s response to Lent is giving up, as in “What are you giving up...
Florida Bishop and Catholic School Win Super Bowl Food Wager
By Carol Zimmermann
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Catholics in St. Petersburg, Florida, will need to get their napkins ready because some barbecue from Kansas City, Missouri,...
Dioceses Dispute Conclusions, Methods of AP Report on Pandemic Funding
By Tom Tracy
(CNS) U.S. dioceses are crying foul over an investigative report on coronavirus relief funding they say grossly mischaracterized the Catholic Church’s finances...
Kelly to Succeed Anderson as Knights of Columbus CEO
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CNS) — Patrick Kelly, a retired U.S. Navy captain, is the new leader of the Knights of Columbus, succeeding Supreme Knight...
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