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 ...

In recent years I have observed that a growing number of young Catholics, particularly seminarians, choose now to receive holy Communion on the tongue. To be sure, the Church permits Catholics to ...

This variation raises an important question: Is receiving only one or the other somehow incomplete? Some Catholics wonder if they are missing out on the fullness of Holy Communion by receiving ...

where one Catholic priest privately admits that Protestant ministers have showed up for services at his church, stayed to receive Communion with the congregation. Breaking the Law. For Catholics ...

Biden, who regularly attends mass, met privately with Pope Francis at the Vatican last month and said afterward that the pope had told him he was a “good Catholic” who can receive communion.

Going to Mass and receiving Communion are signs of putting one's trust in God and understanding he is the one who gives the ...

More than 450 catechumens took their next step into entering the Catholic Church at the Rite of Election, presided over by ...

Notre Dame’s OCIA program, the largest in University history, is guiding 55 students through the process of initiation into ...

and allowing divorced and remarried Catholics to receive communion. Angela Mitchell, another parishioner, believes the pope’s actions have modernized the church. “I think he has done some ...

During the morning he participated in an Ash Wednesday celebration, receiving ashes and Holy Communion. He later set to work ... from the longest hospitalization of his papacy. The Catholic Church ...

ROME (AP) — Parishoners gathered inside St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church in Cleveland ... in an Ash Wednesday celebration, receiving ashes and Holy Communion. He later set to work, which ...