The Italian bishops' conference are trying to find ways to provide needed care and programs for children and adolescents during the pandemic.

The retired Pope Benedict said: “Modern society is in the process of formulating an anti-Christian creed, and resisting this creed is punished by social excommunication.”

”Are we in the sacred enterprise of accompaniment and engagement and dialogue?” the cardinal said. “When you do it, you risk criticism on both sides.”

On the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker, Pope Francis prayed for all those who work and said that "human work is the vocation received from God."

At an April 29 forum at Santa Clara University, business leaders urged prudence with the desire to resume business activity while the pandemic is ongoing.

A government-ordered lockdown couldn't extinguish the May Day protest spirit in Greece, where demonstrators lined up 6 feet apart in careful rows in Athens' Syntagma Square.