We cannot allow the coronavirus to make us see others as a threat.

Many hope the church will repeat that activist role as political divisions depress the economy and the living conditions for average Zimbabweans, and as a severe drought threatens a hunger crisis for millions this year.

Medically, the afflictions are quite different, and AIDS in the early days appears to have been much deadlier than Covid-19 today. Socially, the stigma that affected early cases of H.I.V. and AIDS is largely absent today.

Pope Francis prayed for families who are cooped up in their homes and for all those who are ill with COVID-19.

A reporting system accepting sexual misconduct allegations against U.S. bishops and eparchs is in place.

In a sign of how much the pandemic has grown, China now accounts for less than half of the world's 168,000 cases, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.