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 ...

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

MORRIS, Ind. (AP) — A laboratory analysis turned up nothing miraculous about red marks found on a Communion wafer at a Catholic church in Indiana. The discovery at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church ...

As part of activities marking this year's 2025 Mothering Sunday, the women from Catholic and Anglican denominations have ...

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 ...

Families whose children have disabilities and Catholics with disabilities were ... faith community and have “access to prepare for and receive the sacraments,” Bishop Burbidge told CNA.

A Jubilee year pilgrimage is not a series of tasks to complete in order to reap a reward, but rather a journey to help ...

On Ash Wednesday, observant Catholics receive a sign of the cross in ashes ... would go ahead without Francis but in “spiritual communion” with him. The theme, selected before Francis got ...

More than 450 catechumens took their next step into entering the Catholic Church at the Rite of Election, presided over by Vicar General Bishop Mark O'Connell at the Cathedral of the Hol ...

In southern Benin, the Diocese of Abomey is the only one to appoint women as extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion. La ...