Note from the Assistant Managing Editor:

We are an Easter people, and our entire calendar revolves around Easter. Even though we are homebound, let us still keep the feast!

I have consistently maintained my innocence while suffering from a serious injustice.

It is imperative for the future of the Australian criminal justice system, and indeed for the future of Australian democracy, that a serious examination of conscience followed by a serious public reckoning take place.

Matt Fradd interviews Janet Smith.

"When our bishops decided three years ago to undertake this rededication, they could never have foreseen the extent of our need at this time. Today we undertake this dedication in the 'eye of the storm.'"

Father George Rutler has kept his Church of St. Michael the Archangel on West 34th Street open for private worship after the archdiocese, on medical advice, canceled all Masses indefinitely two weeks ago, in the middle of Lent.

Msgr. Bruno Lefevre-Pontalis of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church blessed Paris with the Blessed Sacrament on his church's rooftop in France.

Bishops, we your faithful flock, implore you to do everything you can to make the sacraments more available to us during this crisis.

The USCCB and other Catholic partners have generously made their resources available to support prayer during these difficult days.

As the coronavirus spreads across the globe and medical professionals struggle to contain it, there is one thing that the rest of us can do besides pray and use hand sanitizer: drink more.

in March 2020, searches for prayer hit the highest levels that they have in the past five years, climbing dramatically when the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic on March 11.

Perfect contrition is sorrow for one's sins based upon love for God, which includes the firm resolution not to commit them any more.

The USCCB clarifies issues related to the sacraments of penance and anointing of the sick which have arisen during the Church's response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Magisterium and the theologians have already considered the possibilities involved with such means as confession by telephone or the Internet, and they have rejected them — for good theological reasons.

Today's pandemic is an even more valid justification for sweeping exercises of executive powers by governors wielding states' police powers. What is not justified are attempts to use today's real emergency as an excuse to rewrite the nation's social contract in order to accustom Americans to life suited to a permanent emergency.

While medical experts' job is to save lives from the coronavirus, it is the responsibility of citizens to ask and decide what makes a worthwhile life. There is more to life than mere living; our own self-respect as responsible agents, who govern ourselves under the law (human and moral), ought not be so easily jettisoned.

Our state officials should explain whether they could have implemented other policies that could have reduced the spread of the disease without incurring such massive economic destruction.

The emotionally and spiritually sane response is to prepare to be forever changed.

We're not wearing masks, and despite what you may have heard, including from some of our most trusted medical authorities, you absolutely should be.

Shop and get takeout food safer during the stay-at-home shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Letting go is hard. The Bean family of eight offspring still has a few at home, but that does not diminish the stages that each child-turned-adult brings to the adventure or the hole that remains in a mother's heart when they are no longer under the same roof.