Houses of worship across the country are encouraging celebrants to bump elbows instead of shake hands, altering Communion practices and recalling missionaries from overseas amid concerns about the spread of the coronavirus.
CHICAGO - As hospitals, schools and businesses prepare to deal with the spread of coronavirus, the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago released guidelines for parishioners concerned about the potential spread of the disease. Effective immediately, all priests, deacons, altar servers and ministers in parishes in the archdiocese must wash their hands before the beginning of Mass. Those distributing ...