WORLD CATHOLIC NEWS
- During coronavirus, Rome's homeless find refuge near the Vatican March 28, 2020Rome, Italy, Mar 28, 2020 / 02:01 pm (CNA).- Along the edge of Bernini’s colonnade, the semi-circular rows of columns which wrap St. Peter’s Square in Rome, many homeless spend time during the day and sleep at night, as tourists and locals walk by. But during the coronavirus pandemic, which has led Italian authorities to […]
- Homeless in Madrid write letters of encouragement to coronavirus patients March 27, 2020CNA Staff, Mar 27, 2020 / 02:01 pm (CNA).- The residents of a homeless shelter in Madrid run by Diocesan Caritas have written letters of support to patients hospitalized with coronavirus at six hospitals in the region. “Life puts us in difficult situations. You just have to stay calm and not lose faith, always after […]
- Relics of St. Corona will be displayed in German cathedral, but after pandemic March 27, 2020CNA Staff, Mar 27, 2020 / 08:30 am (CNA).- A German cathedral will publicly display the relics of St. Corona, an early Christian martyr, once the COVID-19 outbreak has ended in the country. The Catholic cathedral in the city of Aachen, western Germany, was already planning to display the reliquary of St. Corona before the […]
- Croatian cardinal: 'We don't know God's plans' after earthquake and coronavirus March 27, 2020CNA Staff, Mar 27, 2020 / 01:00 am (CNA).- Catholic leaders in Croatia say they don’t know God’s plans, after a 5.2 magnitude earthquake rocked the Croatian capital of Zagreb the morning of March 22, causing dozens of injuries and at least one death. It was the strongest quake to hit the city in 140 […]
- Fr Julian Carron re-elected president of Communion and Liberation March 27, 2020CNA Staff, Mar 27, 2020 / 12:01 am (CNA).- Fr. Julian Carron has been re-elected president of Communion and Liberation for another six years. The Central Diaconia of the Catholic fraternal organization voted unanimously to re-elect Carron March 21. The priest was first asked to help lead the movement by its founder, Fr. Luigi Giussani, […]