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Biology prof Rao has created vaccine-development platform

Health emergency aggravates food, medicine shortages

Each takes an hour to preach, pray rosary, offer prayers

Meanwhile, 30K docs call clinics still open 'irresponsible'

Was diagnosed on March 5, lives to see another birthday

Votive Mass & intention implore God's mercy amid crisis

Calls for 'apologies, compensation' for 'destruction caused'

Locals express ongoing fear of virus, may stay home anyway

Bishops limit or suspend access to confession, anointing

Concerning Univ. of Washington’s taxpayer-funded work

Authorities ban, censor photos of lines at crematoria

Holy Hour, Stations of the Cross, Divine Mercy Chaplet

From Burkina Faso, which has largest outbreak in W. Africa

Bishop directs all parish priests to aid migrant laborers

Jesuit wrote that reduction in all travel helps the planet

11.4M live in crowded slums, on streets of São Paulo, Rio

Virus will decimate areas with poor water, health services

Six from one convent die; 79 diocesan priests are dead

Italy passes 100,000 cases, approaches 11,600 deaths

In Uganda and two locations in India’s Kerala state

Despite warning from clerics and government officials

Inappropriate to put 'blanket prohibitions' on sacraments

'No clean water to wash hands, no health infrastructure'

And asks authorities to be mindful of vulnerable prisoners

Anointing of the Sick can't be delegated to nurse, doctor

Decries mask shortage but 'more than enough bullets'

$100M fund, with $1M secured line of credit per diocese

Pope continues meetings, including with Italian PM

Missions help Dalits, poor who may 'feed on grass' only

Franciscans continue with 7 Masses per day, no pilgrims

Chrism Mass to be transferred; Stations led from parvis

5.2 magnitude quake was strongest to hit city in 140 years

Death toll in Italy is well over double that seen elsewhere

After France announces withdrawal of 200 troops there

N.Y. Times offers photo-journal from hard-hit Bergamo

Portuguese bishops add Spain, others at bishops' requests

To be present for Pope's Urbi et Orbi benediction on Fri.

All who live or work at Santa Marta are now being tested

But enforcement is weak and clinics openly defy law

Abp. answers questions to CDW about Triduum, Easter

And Senate unanimously passes $2 trillion stimulus plan

Ecumenical event marks the Solemnity of the Annunciation

Pol cites aim: Protect 'life from conception to natural death'

On its 25th anniversary; calls for help to women in need

Last was Sept. 1870, when Italian forces entered Rome

To celebrate feast, continue to pray together amid virus

India's 1.3 billion face 'total ban' on leaving homes

Bishops publish names of 51 diocesan priests, 9 religious

U.S. has offered aid but Ayatollah Ali Khamenei refused

Six months after complaint, archdiocese awaits response

Contrast to WA, MA, where abortion is deemed essential

Asymptomatic positive cases not counted in China's stats

Qom, their virus epicenter, is big pilgrimage site for Shias

Paschal Triduum 'cannot be transferred to another time'

And for all those who pray for an end to the epidemic

Responsibility of diocesan bishop to call 'grave necessity'

Friday, March 27, 6 p.m. Rome time; will be broadcast

As do priests, half of seminarians at German FSSP seminary

Began in 1974 as auxiliary under Bernardin, retired in '09

Youngest was 54; more than half were over 80 years old

Hears call to dedicate self in 'more direct, personal way'

NZ has been only Western nation to hold abortion illegal

Quarantines don't apply; 'close quarters' in many shelters

Due to safety protocols & stockpiles of medical items

During months when religious tourism is usually highest

Exceptions in military archdiocese and St. Thomas, VI

Facilities are barring visitors, volunteers as precaution

Only 12% think 'Jesus,' 5% the Virgin Mary, and 2% 'God'

Vatican report distinguished her early and later claims

Stands as victor over virus and as a 'model of society'

Highways crowded with travelers for Persian New Year

Of 177 total; per yesterday's OSV list update, linked above

'We must rediscover the concreteness' of 'small gestures'

Pastor foresees 'potentially crippling, if not mortal, blow'

Like 'drive-in theater' style Mass, drive-thru confessions

Report calls nation 'a killing field of defenseless Christians'

Mentally ill have 'right' to 'same options' as all patients

List compiled by Our Sunday Visitor is linked above

Novena to Our Lady of Lourdes runs from March 17-25

Allegations will be forwarded to metropolitan archbishops

Conviction has twice been overturned by appeals courts

Gov't: 95% of large businesses, 60% of small, reopened

Those who stayed are observing aggressive quarantine