Coronavirus Update: What Every Catholic Needs to Know

This list, based on Register coverage of the historic COVID-19 pandemic, will be updated frequently.

A priest and seminarians pray the Liturgy of the Hours in the empty Church of San Sebastiano on March 13, 2020, in Livorno, Italy. In Italy, public Masses have been suspended to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Italy has passed 21,000 with the death toll rising to 1441. (photo: Photo by Laura Lezza/Getty Images)

Coronavirus Update Blogs May 13, 2020

Updated June 20 at 5:06 p.m. Eastern.

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June 19: Catholic Bishops’ Coronavirus Responses Will Not Long Be Forgotten (Jennifer Roback Morse)
June 19: Did You Know the Sacred Heart Devotion Was Established as a Plague Raged? (Susan Klemond )
June 19: New Guidelines on Holy Orders, Baptism, Confirmation to Help Dioceses Navigate Pandemic (Joseph O’Brien )
June 18: Advocates Appeal for Catholic Schools Amid Closures Nationwide (Jonah McKeown/CNA)
June 16: A Virtual Conference for Catholic Kids (Kathy Schiffer)
June 16: Socialism Among the Socially Distanced (Anna Abbott)
June 15: If the Sacraments Aren’t Essential, Nothing Is Essential (John Clark)
June 13: Pope Francis: Catholics Cannot Ignore the Poverty Caused by the Pandemic (Courtney Mares/CNA)
June 12: From Pandemic to Protests: A Call to Conversion (The Editors)
June 12: DOJ Tells Maryland County: Churches Have the Same Rights as Protests (Catholic News Agency)
June 11: Coronavirus Lockdown Sees Abortion Rate Drop in Mexico City (Catholic News Agency)
June 10: Is This the American Apocalypse? (V. Bradley Lewis)
June 10: One Way or Another, We Can Still Have Corpus Christi Processions (Joseph Pronechen)
June 10: Is Coronavirus Increasing Abortion Rates? (Michael J. New)
June 9: Pope Francis Starts Fund of 1 Million Euros for Rome’s Unemployed After Pandemic (Hannah Brockhaus/CNA)
June 9: HHS: Hospital Restrictions Mean ‘Too Many Dying Alone’ During Coronavirus (Matt Hadro/CNA)
June 8: Catholic Churches in England to Reopen After 80-Day Closure (Catholic News Agency)
June 7: We Must Be Vigilant — Abortion Advocates Never Waste a Crisis (Michael Warsaw)
June 7: A Time of Certainty: Our Supreme Duty in an Age of Crisis (Josh Holdenried)
June 6: Florida Marlins’ Prospect Now Safe at Home (Trent Beattie )
June 6: Young-Adult Apostolates: Made for This Moment (Kathryn Elliott)
June 5: Despite the Pandemic, Catholic Shrine Enjoys ‘Biggest Pilgrimage Season’ in its History (Catholic News Agency)
June 5: ‘We Will Be Priests’: Ordinations Continue Despite Coronavirus (Patti Armstrong)
June 5: Apostolates Battle Financial Pain Wrought by Coronavirus (Judy Roberts)
June 5: Madison Changes Church Reopening Rules After Catholic Bishop Threatens Lawsuit (Christine Rousselle/CNA)
June 5: Churches in China Must Preach ‘Patriotism’ to Reopen After Coronavirus (Catholic News Agency)

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