Quiapo Church elevated as ‘Archdiocesan Shrine of the Black Nazarene’
The St. John the Baptist Parish or Quiapo Church has been elevated to the status of an archdiocesan shrine.
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Cardinal Tagle, in new position, looks for lessons learned in lockdown
Starting a new job always involves a learning curve, but Filipino Cardinal Luis
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Vatican approves special ‘Mass in the Time of Pandemic’
The Vatican has asked priests around the world to recite a new prayer during this year’s Good Friday liturgy, and urged them to offer Masses for the end of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Vatican publishes document on right to water access
Access to clean water is an essential human right that must be defended and protected, the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development said in a new document.
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African cardinal tests positive for coronavirus as pandemic spreads across the continent
Cardinal Philippe Ouédraogo of Burkina Faso has tested positive for the coronavirus, his archdiocese announced Tuesday.
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Cebu archdiocese turns IEC center into Covid-19 care facility
The Archdiocese of Cebu has opened its International Eucharistic Congress (IEC) center, a facility with a floor area of about 25, 754 square meters, for people showing symptoms of coronavirus.
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Knights of Columbus offers short-term loans to help dioceses meet needs
dioceses with short-term financing to help them and their parishes “weather the financial impact of the pandemic.” “It is critical for us to support the Catholic Church in the United States at this time, so that the church can continue to provide irreplaceable spiritual and charitable support, and can keep the staff supporting its mission and outreach employed,” Carl Anderson, CEO of the Knights of Columbus, said in a statement. According to a Knights news release, the lines of credit for dioceses “will have a very competitive interest rate equivalent to that of the one-year Treasury bill, plus 225 basis points (2.25%).” “The line of credit has a two-year term,” the release said. “At the end of that term, dioceses will have the option to convert the line of credit to a Knights of Columbus church loan, fully amortizing at the prevailing rate for a term selected by the borrower of five, 10 or 20 years — the same low-interest terms offered by the Knights’ existing and long-standing ChurchLoan program.” The Knights of Columbus said it has been “a key lender to parishes and dioceses for more than a century, and the ChurchLoan program remains a key source of financing for Catholic parishes and institutions.” The fraternal organization’s other responses to needs created by the COVID-19 pandemic include urging its members through their local and state councils to help supply food and other essentials to people in their parishes and the wider community and to participate in blood drives.
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Vatican releases pope’s pandemic-influenced plan for Holy Week, Easter
With public gatherings, including Masses, banned in Italy to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, the Vatican published an updated version of Pope Francis’ schedule for Holy Week and Easter…
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Manila parishes to help transport medical frontliners
Manila’s Catholic Church is stepping up to make all its facilities available to medical frontliners including transportation services for them.
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Bishop alarmed over handling of Covid-19 cases in Albay
A Catholic bishop sought the national government’s action over the “alarming and disheartening” way of handling coronavirus cases in Albay province.
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Vatican does coronavirus testing, says Pope Francis does not have virus
The Vatican said Saturday Pope Francis does not have the coronavirus, and that recent testing of 170 Holy See employees for COVID-19 resulted in only one new case.
