The church’s mission “is the work of the Holy Spirit and not the consequence of our ideas and projects,” the pope said.

Another near-invisible community similarly faces a serious and disproportionate threat from Covid-19; the people who live and work behind bars in the United States.

Catholic dioceses throughout the United States are making decisions on their own, resulting in a hodgepodge of procedures and protocols.

The U.S. Department of Justice claims that the state of California's coronavirus opening plan is hampering the rights of people to resume religious services.

Efforts to combat the pandemic in India and Bangladesh have been further complicated because of cyclones which have hit those countries.

Catholic advocates against the death penalty have assailed the state of Missouri for proceeding with the first execution to occur during the pandemic, despite the efforts to stop it.

Dr. Francis S. Collins, who led the Human Genome Project--and who is a member of the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences--has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 Templeton Prize.

On March 25, hoping to suppress the spread of the coronavirus, India began the world’s largest lockdown, affecting 1.3 billion people. But the sudden move to close down all but essential services threw millions out of work and began a desperate exodus of migrant and day laborers out of the big cities.

The Kingdom of God does not rest on the actions of one person.

The coronavirus has made clear how much we depend on the contributions of essential workers, many of them immigrants, writes Bishop Mario E. Dorsonville, chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Migration.