Coronavirus Resources and Information / Around the Diocese
Coronavirus-related news, events, and other items of interest from around the Diocese.
January 2021

Throughout the coronavirus crisis, there have been countless ānext-door saints,ā as Pope Francis describes them. They include volunteers working with their parishes and Catholic Charities, who responded to the increased demand by the needy who were homeless, jobless and without food. They include priests in hospitals, nursing homes and churches who ministered to the sick and the dying. Some of them, following the example of St. Charles Borromeo, walked through their neighborhoods or flew above Fairfield County with the Blessed Sacrament, offering prayers and blessing to abate the COVID pandemic.
Msgr. Gregory J. Fairbanks, a church historian who is Dean of the School of Diaconal Formation at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, Penn., says that during plagues and pandemics, heroism has been a common characteristic demonstrated by followers of Christ. And these periods of crisis have proven to be the times āwhen the greatest saints are born.ā Read more ā
December 2020

(Read the updated status of Bishop Caggiano published Sunday, January 3, 2021.)
The Diocese of Bridgeport announced today that Bishop Frank J. Caggiano has tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. Read more ā
November 2020

WASHINGTON (CNS) ā While confusion has arisen in recent days in the media over āthe moral permissibilityā of using the COVID-19 vaccines just announced by Pfizer Inc. and Moderna, it is not āimmoral to be vaccinated with them,ā the chairmen of the U.S. bishopsā doctrine and pro-life committees said Nov. 23.
Bishop Kevin J. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishopsā Committee on Doctrine, and Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities, addressed the issue in a memo to their brother bishops. Read more ā
October 2020

BRIDGEPORT–Ā With a second wave of the coronavirus beginning to take hold across Fairfield County, Bishop Frank J. Caggiano has updated health and safety protocols for the Diocese of Bridgeport.
In a memo to all clergy issued today, the bishop noted that several cities including Bridgeport, Danbury, and Stamford have reverted to the state’s Phase 2 reopening guidelines in response to a growing positivity rate and an increase in hospitalizations. Read more ā
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