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by bcadmin | May 25, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church History, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, News, Papal States, Plague, Vatican | 0 |
The church has had centuries of experience with the do’s and don’ts during a pandemic — and far from being antagonistic, it has often been at the forefront of endorsing public health measures considered to be the most effective at the time for containing contagion.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 20, 2020 | 2020, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Coronavirus, COVID-19, divine permission, Dostoyevsky, Father, God, God's Will, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, News, Plague, Robert Royal, Solzhenitsyn, St. Benedict, St. John of the Cross, The Catholic Thing, The Start of a Reckoning | 0 |
Robert Royal on COVID-19: Whether God sent the plague or has merely permitted it, He must want good things to come from it.
The post The Start of a Reckoning appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 12, 2020 | Avvenire, Church in Europe, Coronavirus, Italy, lead, News, News Analysis, pastors, Plague, Priests | 0 |
At least in Italy, which for a long time was ground zero of the pandemic, the early sense is that most clergy are acquitting themselves pretty well and may be remembered as among the heroes.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 5, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church History, Church in Europe, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Father James Martin, News, Plague, saints and martyrs | 0 |
The Catholic Church has had a long tradition of calling on saints and praying for their intercession in sickness and difficult times.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 4, 2020 | Black Death, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church History, Church in Europe, Coronavirus, COVID-19, History, News, Plague | 0 |
Correspondence can reveal a lot about periods of history and the letters written by popes during the Black Death are no exception. These documents, often responses to questions, provide a window into a long-ago era that is getting renewed attention amid today’s coronavirus pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 4, 2020 | Beethoven, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Dominicans, Father Paul Murray, Father Teilhard de Chardin, Interviews, lead, News, On Spirituality, Plague, Prayer, quarantine | 0 |
Dominican Father Paul Murray is one of English-language Catholicism’s most prominent contemporary theologians and poets, and he reflects on the spiritual significance and fall out of the coronavirus pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 2, 2020 | Coronavirus pandemic, News, Plague, Plague victims, U.S. & World News, Whatsapp | 0 |
Saints can get a bad rap because sometimes people assume they lived in deep piety removed from the burdens of everyday life.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 2, 2020 | Black Death, Bubonic plague, Featured, News, Our Lady of Lourdes, Plague, Saints, St. Achatius, St. Aloysius Gonzaga, St. Barbara, St. Bernadette Soubirous, St. Blaise, St. Catherine of Alexandria, St. Christopher, St. Corona, St. Cyriacus, St. Denis, St. Erasmus, St. Eustachius, St. George, St. Giles, St. Guy, St. Margaret of Antioch, St. Pantaleone, St. Roch, St. Sebastian, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, St. Vitus, U.S. & World News | 0 |
The Catholic Church has had a long tradition of calling on saints and praying for their intercession in sickness and difficult times.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 1, 2020 | 2020, Black Death, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, COVID-19, Francis X. Maier, Georges Bernanos, Justinian’s Flea, Justinian’s Flea Redux, News, Plague, Priests, Sacraments, sanctity, The Catholic Thing, William Rosen, Yale historian Frank Snowden | 0 |
Francis X. Maier: No one can make us give ourselves fully and sincerely to God. But if there were ever a time to do it, the COVID-19 crisis is it.
The post Justinian’s Flea, Redux appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 23, 2020 | Alessandro Manzoni, Capuchins, Coronavirus, COVID-19, lead, News, News Analysis, Plague, spiritual communion, Word On Fire | 0 |
If significant historical crises often generate new realities in the Church to respond, what new impulses might arise from the coronavirus pandemic?
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 21, 2020 | Bishops, Coronavirus, COVID-19, ideology, lead, News, News Analysis, Plague, Politics, Priests, Sacraments | 0 |
There’s no sense pretending there isn’t an increasingly political edge to some Catholic conversation about the Church’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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