In an interview with papal biographer Austen Ivereigh, published today at Commonweal, Pope Francis gave some details about his life under the COVID-19 lockdown, and addressed some of the spiritual concerns prompted by the pandemic […]
“I don’t want to live in 28 Days Later!” my friend lamented over the phone from Colorado. “If my life is going to be a movie, why can’t it be a rom-com?” I laughed as […]
Below is the official text of Pope Francis’ meditation delivered in St. Peter’s Square on March 27, as part of an extraordinary “Urbi et Orbi” blessing “to the city and the world” amid the spread […]
On Friday, before an empty and rain-covered St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis held Eucharistic adoration and gave an extraordinary Urbi et Orbi blessing, praying for the world during the coronavirus pandemic which has killed more […]
You may judge it a curious or sobering coincidence—the great actor Max von Sydow has just died, during the worst global epidemic in a century. Von Sydow was famous for his performance in Ingmar Bergman’s […]
Blaise Pascal said, “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” The great seventeenth-century philosopher thought that most of us, most of the time, distract ourselves from what […]
The Archdiocese of Seattle will indefinitely suspend public Masses in response to the coronavirus pandemic, which has left at least 31 dead in Washington, along with 375 people in the state who have tested positive […]
Alarm over the spread of coronavirus has led the Italian government to place more than a dozen northern provinces—including Lombardy, which totals 16 million people with its city of Milan—under travel lock-down for three weeks. […]
This past week here in Rome has been a helluva, and that’s no lie. Schools are closed — right now, they’re slated to reopen on March 16th, but all the indications are the closure will […]
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