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 ...

Deciding who has the right to receive communion” (Commentary, April 23), by Brian Jordan, a Catholic priest in New York City. The presumption is that the reception of holy Communion is a right ...

A Catholic priest has reportedly banned his local MP, who voted in favour of assisted suicide, from receiving communion.

Catholics receiving Communion should do so with reverence, Pope Francis said, whether kneeling or standing. His comments, delivered during his weekly audience on March 21, ...

Support to bar House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from receiving Holy Communion is mounting among Roman Catholic U.S. bishops who are condemning her support of abortion as a moral evil. "The church ...

Many commentators have pointed to words written in the early fifth century by St. Cyril of Jerusalem that say when receiving Communion, the faithful should “make your left hand a throne for the ...

The conservative archbishop of San Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone, says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may no longer receive the holy sacrament of Communion in the archdiocese, because she supports ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded to Catholic bishops who do not believe she should receive Communion due to her views on abortion by saying that she can use her own judgment on the matter.

But since people could receive Communion standing up, in a misguided and imprudent move, the altar rails became part of the sacred architecture that was done away in many churches and left out of ...

"Receiving Communion is not just receiving something. It's making a commitment to be a Christian," Baldovin said. Historically, such measures have been employed even against powerful ancient ...

At the same time, the Church draws on the words of Scripture in setting forth requirements for receiving Holy Communion. As St. Paul tells us, “Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the ...

Receiving Communion is a “pretty crucial and beautiful reminder for us to retain that hope in what seems to be an increasingly hopeless situation in the world around us,” he added.