The Diocese of Bergamo, also in Lombardy, has set aside 50 single rooms with bathrooms in the diocesan seminary for doctors and nurses coming to help from outside the region.
Coronavirus
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Archbishop Coakley, Catholic Relief Services welcome $2.2 trillion in federal coronavirus relief
In his statement, the archbishop said he expects the federal government to adopt another measure to respond to the worsening economic crisis as unemployment claims continue to increase.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Coronavirus may produce misery beyond disease for migrants
Groups such as the National Advocacy Center of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd argue that if there’s a time to help those seeking shelter, it’s now.
Posted inFaith, News
Papal academy says solidarity needed in pandemic
The pandemic does not represent God’s wrath, because the disease affects most frequently and tragically the weakest and most vulnerable — the very people God loves and cares for the most.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
When the racist response to Covid-19 hits home
I have traveled all over the world, yet I have never felt the need to hide my ethnicity until now, in my own hometown, New York City.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
How to talk to people who aren’t taking social distancing seriously
The coronavirus has arrived as politics has become increasingly important to identity, writes Julie Hanlon Rubio. How can we rethread the ties that bind us together, and do so quickly?
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis warns of ‘a viral genocide’ if governments put the economy before people amid coronavirus pandemic
“The governments that face the crisis in this way show the priority of their decisions: the people first…. It would be sad if they opted for the opposite, which would lead to the death of very many people.”
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Pope Francis calls for a global cease-fire, attention to overcrowded prisons in response to coronavirus
Pope Francis prayed that “the common effort” against the coronavirus pandemic would make people realize “our need for fraternal bonds as members of one only family.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vantage Point
From 1918: Army Chaplains and the Epidemic
Catholic chaplains fighting a different battle in World War I: the fight against Spanish influenza
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Pope Francis does not have Covid-19 but a sixth Vatican employee has tested positive, spokesman says
Pope Francis and his closest collaborators do not have Covid-19, but a sixth employee has tested positive, following tests carried out “on more than 170 employees of the Holy See.”