It is unclear whether reception of the Eucharist in the hand has been formally permitted in Uganda, or has existed as a custom. A priest offers communion to a parishioner during Mass in an African ...

Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego recently authored an article in America magazine regarding the denial of Holy Communion to certain Catholics in political life. This has been one of a series of ...

There is a reckless presumption in the title of the commentary “In compliance? Deciding who has the right to receive communion” (Commentary, April 23), by Brian Jordan, a Catholic priest in New York ...

A focus on the reception of Holy Communion by the divorced-and-remarried misses the larger point of pastoral care: participation in the Church's whole life, Cardinal Gerhard Müller said in an ...

For Catholics: As Catholics, we fully participate in the celebration of the Eucharist when we receive Holy Communion. In order to be properly disposed to receive communion, participants should not be ...

Pope Francis gives first Communion to children during a Mass at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Rakovski, Bulgaria, May 6, 2019. The biannual US Catholic bishops’ meeting received more than its ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The autumn season is here, but Staten Islanders maximized their fun in the last summer days with intimate gatherings with family and friends across the borough. Featured this ...