Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI commemorated his 93rd birthday with morning Mass, Bavarian folk songs and congratulatory phone calls.

Cardinal George Pell, in his first television interview after being released from prison after his sexual abuse conviction was overturned, reflects on how he endured his incarceration.

From Damascus, Syria, Melkite Catholic Patriarch Joseph Absi stressed how faith and hope are needed "in these difficult days that we live in pain, in anxiety and fear."

The Knights of Columbus is providing funding to food banks in several American cities to help deliver food to those in need during the pandemic.

Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, reminds fellow Catholics that in this pandemic crisis, "Christ is not quarantined" and that the Lord's love is always available to those who seek it.

The 90-day program provides a way for Catholics to make a daily commitment in addition to regular weekly donations.

Archbishop Blair also said in the memo that in regard to anointing of the sick, the duty cannot be delegated to someone else, such as a doctor or nurse.

He died at Wyckoff Hospital Medical Center in Brooklyn from complications related to the coronavirus and is believed to be the first Catholic priest in the United States to die as a result of COVID-19.

Father Langan's research and writing widely explored the just-war theory and its application to questions surrounding issues such as nuclear armaments, terrorism, the U.S.-led war in Iraq, and the Syrian civil war.

The Diocese of Bergamo, also in Lombardy, has set aside 50 single rooms with bathrooms in the diocesan seminary for doctors and nurses coming to help from outside the region.