Pope Francis will lead major shrines around the world in praying the rosary to implore Mary's intercession and protection amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

WATERTOWN, Mass.---Bishop Robert Reed will celebrate a memorial Mass at the CatholicTV Network’s Chapel of the Holy Cross in Watertown, Massachusetts, for those who have died of COVID-19.

From celebrating live-streamed Masses to empty pews to standing six feet away from friends and neighbors at the grocery store, encountering surreal situations on a daily basis has become the new normal. The sights of this pandemic’s effect are everywhere around us, including on Memorial Day.

For five years, the St. Michael School and Travis Mills Foundation Walk-A-Thon has steadily grown into a heart-warming fundraiser that annually displays the importance placed on service and kindness at the Augusta school. Students walk laps around the block of the school, located on Sewall Street, raising money for the foundation and the school through pre-obtained pledges.

On what would have been Commitment Weekend for the Catholic Appeal in Maine parishes, Bishop Robert Deeley celebrated his weekly, Sunday live-streamed Mass from the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland on May 17.

As Catholics across Maine tuned into live-streamed Masses this weekend, it marked eight weeks since the doors of Maine churches had been closed due to restrictions and safety guidelines stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Today is a day we honor our mothers.