I recently led a spiritual pilgrimage that included Mass each day at different shrines and churches that requested us to bring our own supplies. To ease our luggage burden, each participant brought ...

Paula Magliocco of Pewaukee, Wis., is a busy mother of three and a Catholic elementary-school teacher. Yet, in spite of her hectic life, she finds time to make a spiritual communion, not just once, ...

Processions occur in four places during the celebration of Mass, including the one during the Communion Rite. Three of the ...

There is no doubt in Scripture or Church teaching that Jesus Christ is truly present in the Holy Eucharist. — “And he took bread, and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, ...

Have the “wafer wars” returned? The recent news that former Vice President (and current presidential candidate) Joseph R. Biden was denied Communion at a Catholic church in South Carolina suggests ...

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 ...

(RNS) — After Bishop Michael Martin of the Diocese of Charlotte issued a pastoral letter outlining that Catholics are expected to stand during the reception of Holy Communion in the diocese — and ...