Read more about the article Sao Paulo church launches campaign to keep people home during pandemic
An employee checks the temperature of a woman before she enters a shop in Sao Paulo June 10, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS photo/Amanda Perobelli, Reuters) See COVID-POPE-BRAZIL and COVID-SAO-PAULO-CAMPAIGN June 11, 2020.

Sao Paulo church launches campaign to keep people home during pandemic

An employee checks the temperature of a woman before she enters a shop in Sao Paulo June 10, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. CNS photo/Amanda Perobelli, Reuters SAO PAULO (CNS)…

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Read more about the article Congo’s new Ebola outbreak adds strain as agencies respond to COVID-19
Teachers take part in a training program in Goma, Congo, June 5, 2020, for the preventive measures to avoid the spread of COVID-19. As Congo battles the pandemic, a new Ebola outbreak has resurfaced in the northwest, as authorities prepared to declare the end of the main Ebola epidemic in three eastern provinces. (CNS photo/Carolina Meroni, courtesy AVSI) See CONGO-EBOLA-STRAIN June 11, 2020.

Congo’s new Ebola outbreak adds strain as agencies respond to COVID-19

Teachers take part in a training program in Goma, Congo, June 5, 2020, for the preventive measures to avoid the spread of COVID-19. As Congo battles the pandemic, a new…

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Read more about the article Catholic activist has been anti-hunger, anti-war, not ‘antifa,’ friends say
Martin Gugino, a 75-year-old protester and longtime Catholic Worker peace activist, lies on the ground after he was shoved by two Buffalo police officers June 4, 2020, during a protest against police violence against minorities. (CNS photo/Jamie Quinn, Reuters) See GUGINO-PEACE-ACTIVIST June 11, 2020.

Catholic activist has been anti-hunger, anti-war, not ‘antifa,’ friends say

Martin Gugino, a 75-year-old protester and longtime Catholic Worker peace activist, lies on the ground after he was shoved by two Buffalo police officers June 4, 2020, during a protest…

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Read more about the article Access to broadband may be one of the defining issues of our time
A sign advertising high-speed internet lays against a street sign in New Market, Tenn., March 25, 2020. Much of this rural Tennessee community does not have access to broadband internet. (CNS photo/Caitie McMekin, News Sentinel via Reuters) See IN-DEPTH-BROADBAND-ACCESS June 11, 2020.

Access to broadband may be one of the defining issues of our time

A sign advertising high-speed internet lays against a street sign in New Market, Tenn., March 25, 2020. Much of this rural Tennessee community does not have access to broadband internet.…

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Read more about the article Once homeless himself, shelter director helping others turn lives around
Carl Zawatski, director at St. Francis Shelter in Tucson, Ariz., talks with Sister Jerry Brady, a Sister of Charity of St. Elizabeth, March 10, 2020. (CNS photo/Michael Brown, Catholic Outlook) See ST-FRANCIS-SHELTER-HOSPITALITY to come.

Once homeless himself, shelter director helping others turn lives around

Carl Zawatski, director at St. Francis Shelter in Tucson, Ariz., talks with Sister Jerry Brady, a Sister of Charity of St. Elizabeth, March 10, 2020. CNS photo/Michael Brown, Catholic Outlook…

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Read more about the article Ex-militar enfrenta juicio en España por asesinatos de jesuitas en 1989
This file photo taken at Central American University in San Salvador, El Salvador, shows a memorial bearing the names of six Jesuits massacred in 1989 during El Salvador's civil war. (CNS photo/Luis Galdamez, Reuters) See SPAIN-SALVADOR-JESUITS-TRIAL June 9, 2020.

Ex-militar enfrenta juicio en España por asesinatos de jesuitas en 1989

Esta foto de archivo tomada en la Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas en San Salvador, El Salvador, muestra un memorial con los nombres de seis jesuitas masacrados en 1989 durante…

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Read more about the article La oración es una ‘lucha’ con Dios, dice el papa en audiencia
Pope Francis leads his weekly general audience from the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican June 10, 2020. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the audience is being livestreamed without the presence of pilgrims and tourists. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) See POPE-AUDIENCE-PRAYER-FIGHT June 10, 2020.

La oración es una ‘lucha’ con Dios, dice el papa en audiencia

El papa Francisco dirige su audiencia general semanal desde la biblioteca del Palacio Apostólico en el Vaticano el 10 de junio de 2020. Durante la audiencia, el papa dijo que…

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Read more about the article Longing and caution: Not everyone in Italy is ready to return to Mass
Father Davide Carbonaro, pastor of the Rome's Santa Maria in Campitelli parish, distributes Communion to a religious sister May 18, 2020, the first day Masses with a congregation were allowed after the COVID-19 lockdown. Father Carbonaro told Catholic News Service he had been longing to celebrate with a congregation again, because "a pastor without his parishioners -- obviously, something essential is missing." (CNS photo/Stefano Dal Pozzolo) See VATICAN-LETTER-ITALY-MASSES June 10, 2020.

Longing and caution: Not everyone in Italy is ready to return to Mass

Father Davide Carbonaro, pastor of the Rome's Santa Maria in Campitelli parish, distributes Communion to a religious sister May 18, 2020, the first day Masses with a congregation were allowed…

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Read more about the article Prayer is a ‘fight’ with God, pope says at audience
Pope Francis leads his weekly general audience from the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican June 10, 2020. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the audience is being livestreamed without the presence of pilgrims and tourists. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) See POPE-AUDIENCE-PRAYER-FIGHT of June 10, 2020.

Prayer is a ‘fight’ with God, pope says at audience

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- True prayer is a "fight" with God in which those who think they are strong are humbled and faced with the reality of their own mortal…

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Read more about the article Scholars: Health, wealth both integral to society’s managing of pandemic
Panelists are seen during a June 2, 2020, discussion about the coronavirus economic response. Pictured are Jesuit Father Paul McNelis, who holds the Robert Bendheim chair in economic and financial policy at Fordham University; Mary Hirschfeld, associate professor of economics and theology at Villanova University; Joseph Capizzi, moral theology professor at The Catholic University of America in Washington; Michael Le Chevallier, associate director at Lumen Christi Institute; and Dr. Daniel Sulmasy, a physician and professor of biomedical ethics at Georgetown University. (CNS photo/courtesy Laura Ieraci) See WEBINAR-LESSONS-LOCKDOWN June 9, 2020.

Scholars: Health, wealth both integral to society’s managing of pandemic

Panelists are seen during a June 2, 2020, discussion about the coronavirus economic response. Pictured are Jesuit Father Paul McNelis, who holds the Robert Bendheim chair in economic and financial…

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