Priests and other celebrants distribute the Holy Communion – the bread and wine, representing the body and blood of Christ – among the crowd at Pope Francis’ funeral in St Peter’s Square.

Gluten has become verboten in some circles, but there is no way around it for Catholics receiving Holy Communion; a recent church directive emphatically states that the wafer known as the host ...

But his diagnosis threatened to create a battle in his soul: The hosts used for Holy Communion at most churches are made with wheat, which contains gluten. Now, however, when the 62-year-old Burr ...

The woman reportedly forcefully grabbed the sacred Communion hosts. A priest in Florida bit ... when a woman “came through Father Fidel Rodriguez’s Holy Communion line and appeared unaware ...

you would need to take 180,000 Hosts. Assuming you attended Mass and took Holy Communion daily, it would take you over 492 years to get through that many. The Church has an absolute limit of twice ...

Consecrated communion wafers known as the eucharist ... rite of the eucharist in which bread, called the host, and wine become consecrated, or holy. Catholics then partake of the bread and wine ...

Fourteen students made their First Holy Communion at Guardian Angel Church on Sunday, May 4 with Father Joseph Kelly as celebrant. It was a glorious day as the students received the body and blood ...