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A woman receives Communion during a memorial Mass for Fr. Jorge Ortiz-Garay at St. Brigid Church in Brooklyn, New York, March 27, on the first anniversary of the priest's death from COVID-19. Ortiz-Garay, who was pastor of St. Brigid, is recognized as the first Catholic priest in the U.S. to succumb to the coronavirus. (CNS/Gregory A. Shemitz)
A woman receives Communion during a memorial Mass for Fr. Jorge Ortiz-Garay at St. Brigid Church in Brooklyn, New York, March 27, on the first anniversary of the priest's death from COVID-19.