The World of Tomorrow
April 16, 2020
New York State, with just under 20 million people, has more cases of COVID-19 than any country in the world....
Jorge I. Dominguez-Lopez
Priests Volunteering to Give Last Rites
April 16, 2020
Two weeks ago, the Archdiocese of Chicago, under the leadership of Cardinal Blase Cupich, decided to recruit a group of...
Your Brother Will Rise Again
April 9, 2020
On Friday, March 27, I received the news that Father Jorge Ortiz-Garay had died of COVID-19, becoming the first priest...
Pope: ‘We Implore You … Wake Up, Lord!’
April 1, 2020
On Friday, March 27, under a persistent light rain coming down from a gray Roman sky, and facing an empty...
Priests in Ireland Under Pressure to Celebrate Funeral Masses During the Pandemic
April 1, 2020
Despite regulations established by civil and ecclesiastical authorities to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, many priests in remote...
A Dangerous Distortion of History
April 1, 2020
This has been the strangest Lent of our lives, as it will be during the Holy Week we start this...
Father Jorge Ortiz-Garay, First Catholic Priest in US to Die of Coronavirus
March 28, 2020
Father Jorge Ortiz-Garay, pastor of St. Brigid’s parish in Wyckoff Heights, Brooklyn, died of coronavirus this Friday.
Bishop DiMarzio Encourages the Faithful to Pray the Rosary
March 25, 2020
Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio released a video on the Feast of the Annunciation, March 25, when the Church celebrates the Archangel...
Virtual Community, Real Prayers
March 25, 2020
“Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord; / Lord, hear my voice! / Let your ears be...
Stravinsky, March Madness, And the Coronavirus Pandemic
March 18, 2020
On Thursday, March 12, within a five-minute span, I received three big pieces of news: my youngest son’s school was...