The coronavirus pandemic has caused our world, as we know it, to end. But there might be a better world around the bend, a better arrangement than the one we have grown used to.

Catherine is a model of contemplation in action, no doubt. But for many, the biography of her life has overshadowed her writings.

Here are the texts of two prayers, written by Pope Francis, for the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Loving God, in the midst of our world’s—your world’s—coronavirus crisis, we beg to bring before you the brave women and men who are closest to the sick and suffering.

Since the outbreak of Covid-19, I have thought often about Sister Mary Anthony Duchemin and the extraordinary sacrifice that she made to the church and community at large in 1832.

If St. Ignatius Loyola had a tagline, it would be “God in all things.” And he would probably hate it.