Church member J.H. Brittain worried about the spread of disease caused by hundreds of parishioners drinking from the same Communion cup. The Englishman wrote to the editors of the Lancet, an ...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded Tuesday to the announcement by the Catholic archbishop of San Francisco that she can no longer receive communion because of her stance on abortion access. She ...
The bishops of England and Wales announced this week that the distribution of Holy Communion from the chalice during Mass will resume starting Holy Thursday. The U.K. bishops’ announcement comes after ...
If the Church were to change its rules on shared Eucharistic Communion it would “go against Revelation and the Magisterium”, leading Christians to “commit blasphemy and sacrilege,” an Italian ...
When Irish voters approved a referendum repealing a constitutional amendment banning abortion in 2018, Catholic bishops throughout the country deemed it a devastating blow to a faith that has long ...
Like nearly everybody else on the planet, I have been preoccupied with, concerned about and focused on the novel coronavirus pandemic over the last few weeks. It seems that every hour new information ...
Sacrament. To say that word in a worship service of many American congregations will likely draw a raised eyebrow or perplexed glance. But our worship is generally grounded deep within a sacramental ...
(The Conversation) — Biden is not the first public figure to whom the Catholic Church wants to deny Communion. Over the centuries, the Church has often come under criticism for either denying or ...
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 ...
Former U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi allegedly took communion at a papal Mass presided over by the pope at the Vatican despite Archbishop of San Francisco Salvatore Cordileone — who is ...
After my mother died five years ago, I learned that she had been born to young Russian Jewish parents living on Orchard Street on the lower East Side of Manhattan. She had never spoken of this ...