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Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers Bible Library A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Texas becomes latest state to halt abortion services amid coronavirus outbreak “Storm Heaven with prayer”: Dan Burke, Avila Institute founder and former head of EWTN news, in intensive care with coronavirus symptoms... The healing of the man born blind... Msgr. Charles Pope This Gospel doesn’t address directly what we’re going through now, but indirectly it does. The Word of God is always right on time. It’s the gospel of the blind man. Open your Bible to John Chapter 9 and I’ll give you a little bit of an introduction to what we mean by lectio divina and how it how it works. You’re going sit before the text of God and say be still... Is coronavirus God’s judgment? Fr. Dwight Longenecker “Theodicy” is the name for the conundrum at the heart of faith. “If God is all good and all powerful why is there suffering? If he is all good God would want to end suffering. If he is all powerful he is able to end suffering. Therefore he must not be either all good or all powerful.” That certainly seems reasonable from a sort of seventh grade level of logic... Stay positive: Here are 23 pieces of good news about the new coronavirus... Photos: New Orleans priest blesses empty seafood restaurants in a gesture of hope during the coronavirus pandemic... Bergamo priest Don Giuseppe Berardelli dies of coronavirus after giving up respirator for stranger... Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s advice for humanity in a time of crisis... Peter Howard Our Lord warned us that crises and judgment can come like a thief in the night. And that is exactly what has happened with this COVID-19 pandemic event. On one level, it doesn’t matter the nature or gravity of the actual virus because the hysteria it has caused around the globe, especially the United States has led to a global lockdown... Nobel laureate Michael Levitt offers coronavirus prediction: “What we need is to control the panic. We’re going to be fine...”... The sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick heals ‘the whole man, soul and body’... 10 secrets of success from veteran homeschoolers... How your state has reacted to social distancing, in charts... Capuchin history a reminder that death often brings new Catholic life... A solemn reminder from the Lord Jesus in this time of crisis... Thinking about these times: Reporter asks cloistered nun for tips on healthy ‘social distancing’... Terry Mattingly There are few things in life that I enjoy more than getting to send out a “Hurrah!” message (that would be “Axios!” in the Orthodox world) to a former journalism student. So that’s what this weekend’s think piece begins. Social distancing is, of course, one of the biggest stories in the world, right now. For some of us... Watch: From EWTN, the Mass for the Fourth Sunday of Lent... Celebrations of the Liturgy of the Word in your family... Fr. Matthew Schneider With the inability to go to Sunday Mass for many families, many parishes are offering live streaming of Mass. I think this a good option for many. However, for some families doing the liturgy of the Word together may be a better option. As I could not find a clear document online for this, I threw one together based on the Celebrations of the Word and Communion without a priest... Learning Latin the medieval way... SUBSCRIBE! Enter your email address: New Advent is edited by Kevin Knight (webmaster newadvent.org) When might experimental drugs to treat coronavirus be ready? Here’s a forecast... Coronavirus vignettes from the global epicenter of the crisis... John Allen One feature of the coronavirus phenomenon - not the disease, but the social and cultural dynamics surrounding it - is that it’s upended normal routines, generating unexpected and, occasionally, surreal new experiences. Herewith three such vignettes from the global epicenter of the crisis in Italy. By now, viral images have made the rounds showing Italians popping out onto their balconies to sing... Say “No” to death’s dominion... Coronavirus leads Indiana priest to offer Mass in parking lot, using low-power FM transmitter... Former Swiss Guard: The elderly are ‘united in prayer’ in coronavirus-hit Italy... Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans becomes first U.S. bishop to test positive for coronavirus... America loses pro-life Democrat Dan Lipinski just when it needs him most... Kathryn Jean Lopez here are many sorrows of this time of coronavirus, and one of them is actually political. On the first Tuesday we were really truly grappling with it as a country, one of our national leaders in defense of innocent human life lost his primary race. Dan Lipinski of Illinois is pretty much the pro-life Democrat, at least in Washington... Doing nothing is doing something... You’ve seen and heard them on TV — now meet the members of EWTN’s superb Mass choir... How to tweak your store-bought tomato sauce so it tastes as good as homemade... Seminarians at North American College in Rome ordered to return home during coronavirus pandemic... A Church “at home” — on Rose Sunday, our “altared state”... Rocco Palmo Before anything else, is everybody OK? At least so far, here's hoping this deeply uncertain, unsettling road is going as smoothly as it can for you and yours. Back to the work at hand, perhaps fittingly given this Sunday's Gospel, we are all just hoping to find our way in the dark... yet with it, history is unfolding in real-time... Pope Francis and the response to coronavirus... Andrea Gagliarducci On March 15, Pope Francis made one of his usual big gestures: while the city of Rome is locked down because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pope went to the St. Mary the Major Basilica and then to the church of St. Marcello al Corso. In St. Marcello, there is a cross that saved Rome from the 1522 plague. In front of that cross, the Pope prayed that the Lord extend his hand and bring and end to the pandemic... Scientists identify 69 drugs to test as possible treatments for COVID-19... Digital Masses and Johnny Cash on the pain of lonely Sundays... Jason Craig As this issue nears printing the coronavirus is forcing many into “social isolation” to slow the pandemic. Whatever your opinion of such measures, there is the real possibility that many feasts days will go by without true feasting, without people gathered to celebrate. Easter is approaching, the feast of feasts, but we also have various saints... How to stay quarantined, stay married, and keep your friends... Rejoice! Public Masses may be canceled, but we have reasons for great hope today... John Clark During this week, as the bishops of the world have steadily announced the suspension of public Masses, the Catholic faithful have been shocked, distressed and dismayed. The thought that we and our loved ones cannot physically attend Mass is a concept that most of us have never even pondered, much less experienced. At a time of virus and viral panic... Get this entire Catholic website as an instant digital download... The full contents of the New Advent website are available as a digital download. It includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more — and it's only $19.99... 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