After three months without holy water, churchgoers were able to use new sanitary fonts to bless themselves. To stream NewsWest9 on your phone, you need the NewsWest9 app. Download the NewsWest9 app ...

Across the globe, Catholic churches have emptied holy water fonts in an effort to stall the spread of coronavirus, or COVID-19 as it’s officially known. From India to the U.K., the U.S. and even ...

Emptying holy water fonts. In recent years, some parishes have taken the holy water out of the holy water fonts during Lent. They have even filled them with sand in some cases.

While all the holy water fonts inside St Teresa's Catholic Church on Clarendon Street appeared empty, one font at an entrance off Grafton Street, probably full of rainwater, continued to attract ...