The number of COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles County was 144 as of March 17, with additional cases in nearby counties.

"The strength of a culture is seen, not when things are going well, but when crisis strikes," Bishop Donal McKeown of Derry said March 17 in his St. Patrick's Day homily in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

Pope Francis prayed for families who are cooped up in their homes and for all those who are ill with COVID-19.

A reporting system accepting sexual misconduct allegations against U.S. bishops and eparchs is in place.

In a sign of how much the pandemic has grown, China now accounts for less than half of the world's 168,000 cases, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

After an appeals court found his sweeping 2012 trial flawed and his conviction was twice overturned, Monsignor Lynn, 69, is set to be retried Monday on a single child endangerment count.