IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Sisters of Charity of New York By Nancy Frazier O'Brien BALTIMORE (CNS) -- Catholic nuns emerged as the unexpected heroes in the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic that killed...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Njeri Mwangi, Reuters By Fredrick Nzwili NAIROBI, Kenya (CNS) -- As the coronavirus cases rise in Kenya, many city residents are fleeing to their rural homes, despite a warning from...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jeenah Moon, Reuters By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In the U.S., this Lent started out with some people discussing if it was acceptable to eat plant-based burgers on Fridays...
By Peter Jesserer Smith | AUBURN, N.Y. — “This has 100% changed us as a church.” The coronavirus pandemic’s sudden shutdown of Sunday Masses and public gatherings has sent Catholic parishes across...
By Catholic News Agency | VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, vicar general of the Diocese of Rome, has tested positive for coronavirus. He is the first cardinal known to have the...
By Mary Rose Short | WASHINGTON — The Little Sisters of the Poor have cared for their elderly and infirm residents through two world wars, the Spanish flu pandemic, the Great Depression and numerous..