The biannual U.S. Catholic bishops’ meeting received more than its usual attention this June due to one particular item on its agenda: a proposed document on the Sacrament of the Eucharist, a ritual ...

What's the history behind communion in the Catholic Church? Yeah, I know the story about the last supper and all, but usually what's really behind rituals like this is an attempt to subvert some ...

Exploring their sacraments, rituals and outreach that promote reconciliation with God and among people, Catholic and Methodist experts acknowledged in a new document that divided Christians "fall ...

Two Peruvian priests and the president of the Peruvian Bishops’ Conference responded to “visionary” Erica Serrano, who encouraged people to use a consecrated host to perform purification rituals and ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Holy Communion will have a different look when in-person worship services resume at the end of May in the Catholic Diocese of Knoxville, Tennessee: The wafers signifying the body of ...

June 29 (UPI) --The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops recently approved drafting a document on receiving communion in the Catholic Church. It will include a section regarding standards for ...

A rift in the American Catholic Church widened in June, as U.S. bishops voted to draft instructions to the faithful on who should receive Communion, with an eye toward dissuading high-profile ...

One of the great joys of the Lenten season is getting to teach first communion classes to our sixth-grade students, an age in which they are almost no longer Sunday school students, but yet a little ...

Here is what is at the root of efforts by conservative U.S. bishops to prohibit the country’s second Catholic president from receiving communion. By Giulia Heyward The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops ...

(The Conversation) — Amid controversy over US bishops’ plans to deny Communion to pro-abortion rights Catholics, a scholar of sacramental theology explains the importance of the ritual to members of ...