VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The four dozen people ... the beauty of receiving the Eucharist on the tongue while kneeling, Archbishop Ranjith had said he thought it was time for the Catholic Church ...

For in the holy Eucharist, the Catechism of the Catholic Church notes ... encouraged Catholics to consider receiving holy Communion on the tongue as a “sign of adoration that needs to be ...

The parishioners are inching along the center aisle. A rosy-cheeked toddler babbles in the arms of her mother. Against the cold, granite floors, the metallic click of a silver cane guides a ...

The first time someone urged me to receive Holy Communion on the tongue was in 2011 or 2012. I was an altar server, and the priest who offered Mass said ... strived to avoid people’s mouths ...

The origins of the document go back to the bishops’ fight with pro-choice Catholic politicians ... encouraging people to abandon the traditional Latin Mass for the Eucharist as reformed by ...

That instruction, he said, was out of step with the U.S. Conference of Catholic ... a right to receive Holy Communion in the most reverent way they deem, in the hand or on the tongue.” ...

which Catholic League President Bill Donohue claims shows Plank “kneeling” and “receiving food on the tongue,” as one would during Holy Communion. “Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ...

Most Catholics don’t recognize that Scripture verse as a cornerstone of Catholic ... Mass, they believed, was its obvious fulfillment.” Aquilina explains that the truth of the Eucharist ...

The origins of the document go back to the bishops' fight with pro-choice Catholic politicians ... encouraging people to abandon the traditional Latin Mass for the Eucharist as reformed by ...