NEWS STORY
RNS-Priest-Respirator: Did an Italian priest really give up his respirator for a younger patient?
VATICAN CITY (RNS) – An elderly Italian priest who contracted the coronavirus allegedly offered his respirator to a younger patient and died due to the illness late on Sunday (March 23). By Claire Giangravè. 443 words. (category: i)
NEWS STORY
RNS-SBC-Cancel: Amid coronavirus, Southern Baptists cancel annual meeting
(RNS) — The decision, announced Tuesday (March 24) by Baptist Press, the denomination’s news service, means the meeting, which had been scheduled for June 9-10 in Orlando, Florida, will not be rescheduled for a later time. Instead, the denomination will skip a year and meet again in 2021. By Yonat Shimron. 446 words. (category: a)
NEWS STORY
RNS-Virus-FaithCalls: In calls with faith leaders, White House focuses on virus as well as election
(RNS) — The White House held calls with religious leaders last week to encourage their support of its guidelines on addressing the coronavirus, gathering hundreds of people on three phone calls. But when President Trump briefly took part in the Friday call, he addressed the pending election as well as the pandemic. By Adelle M. Banks and Jack Jenkins. 1,100 words. (category: a)
NEWS STORY
RNS-Univision-Mass: Univision and Los Angeles archdiocese partner to offer Mass on local TV channel
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — Through a partnership between Univision television network in Los Angeles and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the Spanish-language morning Masses from the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels are now broadcast through the television network’s local UniMas KFTR-TV on Channel 46. The weekly morning Mass services are offered at 7 a.m. Monday through Friday and on Sunday. By Alejandra Molina. 495 words. (category: a)
COMMENTARY
RNS-Burton-Oped: Location, location, location? How coronavirus is reshaping our sense of place
(RNS) — The rise of the ‘social distancing social life’ makes it clearer than ever that the places that shape us are not necessarily those into which we are born — our hometowns, our birth parishes or synagogues or mosques, the communities we take as a given. By Tara Isabella Burton. 750 words. (category: k)
COMMENTARY
RNS-Reese-Oped: Caring more for each other could have ameliorated the pandemic. It’s not too late.
(RNS) — From the small Jesuit community where I’ve been riding out a quarantine to the refugee camps in Syria, we have to look out for one another. The economic term ‘globalization’ must also include compassion and seeing everyone in the world as our brothers and sisters. This is what solidarity means. We have to look out for one another everywhere in the world. By Thomas Reese. 700 words. (category: k)
COMMENTARY
RNS-Camosy-Oped: Ration health care? Yes. Abandon our humanity? No.
(RNS) — The president’s claim that “we’re at war” is, at best, a mixed blessing. Yes, we all need to ramp up our efforts to fight this new, invisible enemy, but historically being at war means we risk violating our most fundamental values. By Charles C. Camosy. 1,136 words. (category: k)
