Diocesan churches continue to safely welcome more faithful back to Mass and into mission. A Catholic Youth Ministries Project and Alpha Youth help youth ministers to help diocesan youth share the Faith within their parish and beyond, despite the pandemic. The New Freeman revisits its 1918 coverage of the Spanish influenza.

Pastors continue to guide parishes to re-opening access to the Sacraments. Juno-winning Steve Bell joins diocesan youth in Saints in Training. Altar murals restored for the 200th anniversary of St. Mary’s Cathedral Basilica in Halifax.

Diocesan parishes and faithful adapting to pandemic protocols, as the Steubenville conference for youth and young adults adapts by going online this summer.

Clergy assignments for the Diocese of Saint John have been announced for August 1, 2020.

Diocesan Rosary and Alpha offering comfort and community through the pandemic, as Pope Francis adds invocations of mercy and hope to the Litany of Loreto. Beatification of Italian teen who communicated his Eucharistic devotion by developing an online database of Eucharistic miracles.